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Buckley's primary blocker last season, big Mike Durgin, was an early cut of the Houston Oilers. Other Ivy football players, however, have fared surprisingly well recently in their trips through the NFL meat grinder...
...lost. That did not seem necessary. The TV broadcasts had made his one of the most familiar faces in the state. Richard Nixon, whom he had once accused on TV of buckling to the Commies, agreed to campaign for him. "I didn't want to go through the meat grinder," Helms says of his reluctance to run. "I just couldn't see myself having any great personal appeal to the voters." His opponent was Democrat Nick Galifianakis, a moderate U.S. Representative whose Greek name was made the target of subtle innuendo. Helms' slogan: JESSE HELMS...
...established a clear purpose and direction. He set two priorities: the first on economic renewal and the second on revitalizing American military strength. Reagan assembled a package of proposed budget and tax cuts and insisted that they be presented as a whole and not fed piecemeal into the congressional grinder. He established a matrix for decision making and, even as F.D.R. did, he maintained a confident and sunny disposition through all the tribulations of starting up a concern ten tunes larger than General Motors and infinitely more complex...
...recent cover of Hustler displays a woman being fed into a meat grinder...
...polished to roughly pecked stone. That, too, is a metaphor of larger geological events: in some real landscapes the mountain does not rise; the softer plain around it is removed inch by inch, by erosion, a process mimicked in sculpture by the action of Noguchi's chisel and grinder...