Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where have all the older players gone? Does junior year bring arthritis of a bad back or varicose veins? It seems almost as if the player that survives through sheer endurance is made captain by virtue of her perserverance...
...Gone are the elderly matron sort of coaches that politely prodded their charges with the kind of encouragement common to all kindergarten teachers. They have been replaced by young, professional coaches who know how to produce results and bring home the wins...
...fairness, Drury must have spent at least half an hour revising the plot of his past novels to fit this new setting. Gone is the Russian threat to destroy democracy that occupied center stage in his innumerable previous efforts. In its place he has contrived a threat to the Egyptian royal dynasty, stemming from the machinations of a priestly cult bent on weakening the Pharaoh and aggrandizing a mysterious golden idol. But lest his fans grow confused at this radical turn of events, he has obligingly included the familiar signposts that dot his other works: the danger of growing unrest...
...gone 0-4 at Lincoln Suds, but whereas you would no doubt take this fact and hide it under your SAT instruction booklet, Rand talks freely of the path upon which he skied into Cambridge, of the April morning in '75 when he received four letters in the mail--from Harvard, Bowdoin, Vermont and Colorado College--and they all said "No." As in "We are sorry to inform you that we are unable to offer you a place in next year's freshman class...
...world beyond China, she knew little. The only American Presidents she remembered from her history lessons were Washington ("a great man") and Lincoln. She studied Gone With the Wind to understand the Civil War. She also studied American westerns and did not seem to grasp fully that they were fictional reconstructions and did not portray contemporary reality. To her, the westerns proved that "monopoly capitalist groups" had been responsible for killing off the Indians. "The working people would not act like that...