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...feels the giddiness deep in his gut: an amalgam of excitement, anticipation and, he admits only to himself, a touch of fear. His unit has just been alerted for a mass jump. With each ritualistic step from now until he is back on the ground, the giddiness will return. That is part of all this, a part the Paratrooper likes best...
...endorses Bancroft racquets for another $90,000 or so a year and all the racquets he can break. Fila, an Italian tenniswear firm, gives him approximately $500,000 a year and the shirtts on his back. VS Strings antes up more than $25,000 a year and lots of gut to keep Borg's tension high. In his togs, Borg is virtually a walking billboard...
...came to see me and complained about his appetite. His stomach actually was swollen and covered with blue lines. My appetite has disappeared, he said. Then take the matter to the police, I advised boldly. What about the digestion tract, he asked. Some rivets in the gut really had worked loose, there were bolts rattling around, and some welded seams had come apart. When all's said and done I'm no engineer and we're not living in some science fiction novel, but in ordinary Soviet reality, I announced to him and washed my hands...
...Land, Texas, contributed the following to one discussion of the relative merits of 45s vs 9 mm ammunition. "Let's try an experiment," Loper suggests. "Lie flat on your back on a bench or table. Have a friend--or enemy--take a baseball bat and slam it into your gut with all the force he can. Your skin remains unbroken and there is no wound. Yet you are rolling on the floor, puking, due to energy transmitted via hydrostasis and body reaction. A good hollowpoint does the same thing. IT drills a hole in the body, then gives...
...about the advice but put a paragraph about credit cards in his speech. The response from the public was beyond anything predicted. Some people mailed their cards to the White House, others ground them up, and a lot of folks began buying with cash. Carter's gut had been right...