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...have concluded that the most likely target of a Soviet nuclear attack on Boston would be the frog pond in Boston Common," the former director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories said, and 700 doctors, students and social activists laughed self-consciously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experts Urge Nuclear Weapon Control | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Despite a stand-out performance by Keene State captain Karen Brodeur, who rose above the tough Harvard zone defense with an eccentric frog-kick jump for a game-high 21 points, the New Hampshire squad suffered from turnovers, lack of rebounding and unrelenting pressure from the Harvard defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning Weekend for Cagers | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...edge (where else would you use all those muscles?), that Arnold too was an existentialist. It was not insignificant to Hercules that America had become a nation of joggers, that America had a jogging president at the time the embassies started to burn. Why jog? Hercules remembered seeing a frog's heart pumping away in saline solution, two hours after the frog died. Joggers were interested in living long lives, not necessarily good ones; they forgot that, as Engels wrote, "Quality changes quality...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Arnies of the Night | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...unlike the Piper's troops, Lobel's keep reappearing and asking for more. He has responded with scores of books, and this season he presents Days with Frog and Toad (Harper & Row; $5.95), five short stories that teach the value of friendship, as well as the delights of working, loafing and being alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Child's Portion of Good Reading | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...office twice a week, covered their beats as best they could and worked on long-term stories. Some two dozen Timesmen busied themselves writing books, others freelanced for magazines, but none completely escaped the ennui that afflicts a newspaperman suddenly without a newspaper. "I feel like a frog in the winter," Times Foreign Editor Charles Douglas-Home said at one point. "All horizons have contracted. Things continue to function, but at a tiny percent of efficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Return of the Thunderer | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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