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...second period at Oakland last week, Bobby drew an awed gasp from the crowd with a blast that hit a defender's stick-and ricocheted all the way up to the 34th row of the stands. Not every opponent who crosses the path of a Hull missile gets off so lightly. Montreal Goalie Lome ("Gump") Worsley caught one in the face three years ago, firmly believes that the only reason he was not killed was that he was hit by the flat side rather than the edge of the puck. Last October, Minnesota Goal Tender Cesare Maniago was knocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hockey: Hawk on the Wing | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...will gasp and crumple in agony," said the ads for Luther, "and the Christian world will split. Tonight. In your living room." Now who could afford to miss that? And just to make sure that no one did, the ABC cameras zeroed in for so many closeups that it seemed as though the lenses were affixed to the actors' noses. But that was all right, for the furrowed brow and blazing eye said a lot. Filmed in London, the adaptation of John Osborne's play about Martin Luther's supposed psychological dilemmas glinted with bright character roles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Specials: Trio from Britain | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

Somehow the Terriers got the ball down to Hayes again, and the slick southpaw sliced in for another bucket at the two-second mark. A last gasp desperation hook by Grate fell short...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Basketball Team Blows 14-Point Lead, Drops Season's Opener to B.U., 78-77 | 12/4/1967 | See Source »

...Newsweek and all the rest are propagating the conception that hippies do after all have a good reason to drop out from society since society has been kind of rotten lately. So we really shoudn't hate these people even though they are dirty panhandlers, sexual permissivists, and (gasp) drug users...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: At The Root Of It -- Marijuana | 9/25/1967 | See Source »

...affairs of undergraduate organizations fall under the control of the Dean of Students, who makes sure that every organization is financially and structurally secure, that it upholds the College's social rules, and, to the dying gasp, that the Harvard name remains untainted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Harvard Controls Undergraduate Groups | 9/25/1967 | See Source »

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