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Three years earlier, Higgins was asked to bid on a Navy design. He scrawled across their plan, "This is lousy." Higgins had a better idea for a light, maneuverable boat with a protected propeller that did not easily foul in the shallows. Show us, said the Navy. Higgins took over an entire block of New Orleans' Polyminia Street, set up floodlights, put machines and people to work around the clock. Fourteen days later, with the last paint applied as the freight flatcars clacked east, nine Higgins boats rolled into Norfolk, Virginia. The Navy would use 20,094 of the homely...
What made the team's disappointment all the greater was that its inability to fulfill expectations was not a cause of collective malaise so much as a series of bizarre incidents which seemed to be taken from a foul episode of the 60's comic mini-series "Bewitched...
Some fans and players have called foul (no pun intended) that the best teams are out of the dance, but the only people to blame are the players and/or coaches on the losing teams themselves...
...offs with both Garamendi, 42% to 25%, and Wilson, 51% to 39%. The state Democratic convention in Los Angeles last month declined to endorse a candidate this year, but her dominance at the event gave her a badly needed lift after a long season of unfocused strategy and outright foul-ups. Ushered before the placard-waving delegates swaying to rock music, Brown wore a suit of banker's blue with a string of Barbara Bush pearls as she uncorked a new campaign that pushed just two messages: a promise of 1 million new jobs and an excoriation of the sitting...
...particularly foul mood, I'll get tougher: "who kicked the game-winning field goal in Super Bowl V?" Jim O'Brien, Baltimore Colts, to defeat Dallas...