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Hazel Taylor and his wife Yvonne joined hands in terror as the tornado funnel raced toward their mobile home in Abney, S.C. The winds tore the trailer apart, lifted up the Taylors and whirled them 100 ft. through the air like two figures from the second circle of Dante's Inferno. Rescue workers found them lying in a field, dazed but alive-and still holding hands...
...national polls and were written up in Sports Illustrated before a couple of close losses the week before the Beanpot. Sure enough, a Harvard team with an anemic offense perpetrated a stupendous upset in the first round. As the Crimson fans would say, the Northeastern net was a funnel--no, a vacuum--no, a black hole--as it sucked in 10 Crimson goals. A week later, the Harvard defense shined in an outrageously exciting, unbelievably fast-moving 2-0 triumph over heavily favored...
...litany goes on and it is now chehe-a popular refrain in almost any campaign song. But the most aggravating paradox of plenty receives little attention this country's impressive wealth of highly educated citizens. Properly applied, that brainpower could funnel America's surplus of supplies into its equally abundant stockpile of needs. But each year, few who graduate from Harvard and similar institutions play such a catalyzing role, and most merely contribute...
...they are seniors, the players discover to their astonishment that Osborne is not the distant man who chilled them as freshmen. A few weeks ago, before the annual game between the freshmen and the redshirts (a task force, sophomores mostly, being held out a year), the varsity formed a funnel onto the field to usher in the next generation; the pure numbers of Nebraska football players collected all in one place brought to mind both the late movie director Cecil B. De Mille...
...discomforts he endured between two world wars. That may be small consolation to his fellows as Poland's economic prospects grow darker and darker. Soon after Pope John Paul II's visit in June, it was reported that the Polish church was negotiating with the government to funnel about $2 billion into providing farms with machinery, seeds, fertilizer and other needed goods. Most of the farmers in Borkowo are either unaware or skeptical of the offer. The only thing they are sure of is that the best response to hardship is hard work. "On the farm," says Golunski...