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...beginning of the school year most serving ladies taste, figuratively, like grapefruit juice. They all frown or smirk as they dole out small portions. Within a fortnight one can pick out the true grapefruit-juice specimens. They are usually under fifty, and suspect sexual motives in the student's eager smile. Often they try to give the impression that they could beat you up if you tried anything...
Yovicsin couldn't keep a smile off his face during the post-game press conference. But when Pont observed that Harvard's entire backfield would return next year, "and that scares the hell out of me," Yovvy managed the barest flicker of a frown...
...step from investigation to action was a quick one. Early in 1961 Higgs was approached by a young Negro wearing a purple shirt, leather jacket, sunglasses, and a determined frown. "You've spoken well of us, Mr. Higgs, but we've all heard enough talk. I plan to enter Ole Miss this year. Help me." The lawyer agreed, and eighteen months later James Meredith walked on to the Oxford campus...
...literature does not provide facile diversion for a drowsy reader. For one thing, translations tend to be abysmal. For another, stylistic techniques are usually old-fashioned-partly because Soviet authorities still frown on "bourgeois ornamentation," partly because Soviet writers are still too intoxicated at being even partially free to say what things have been like in their world to try cutting fancy capers...
Graduation for Staubach is still a year and a half away, and he has a four-year Navy hitch to serve-probably as a supply officer (he is color-blind and tends toward airsickness). But what then? The pros frown on roll-out passing ("We've got too much money invested in our quarterbacks to take any chances on their getting killed"), but the New York Giant's Jim Lee Howell says, "We can always teach a boy to go straight back; we just can't give him an arm or a brain." Staubach has both...