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...word has gotten around that those four workmen--because of a strike--won't get around to finishing Briggs until January or (gulp) even late March, pre-season attention has shifted from the arena to the team that will eventually play there...
...coffee. You get between 50 mg and 100 mg in a cup of coffee. The people we're seeing using these drugs are taking ten to 20 pills at once." In other words, they can ingest the caffeine of dozens of cups of coffee in one gulp. In the past two years, look-alikes have been implicated in the deaths of at least 14 people in New York, Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico, California and Illinois...
After Chappaquiddick, in 1969, Edward Kennedy practiced what might be called the pre-emptive deflective confession. The idea was to assume the guilt in one large abstract gulp in order to silence any further specific inquiries. It did not work well for Kennedy. He spent a full week in a fortress of silence while the reassembled talents of Camelot labored over a text for him. Then he went on national television to take the responsibility of a young woman's death unto himself but also, simultaneously, to leave himself in a state of dazed blamelessness. His biggest mistake...
...Gulp. And it was only the bottom of the second...
...angles, like folding yardsticks. Her face seems the work of an impish sculptor who added an Emmett Kelly nose to those handsome features. Her hair has declared war on itself. She hunches over her food as if protecting it from invaders, and swallows champagne in one gulp, as if it had an egg in it. She moves like an awkward little girl who in her mid-30s is still Daddy's favorite. She is very dear...