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Challenging McLean for the number one position is junior Pete Reider, who as a sophomore last year won both the indoor and outdoor Heptagonal 2-mile titles, in addition to placing fourth in fall. Reider also is short, but hid endurance is phenomenal...
...geisha had hitched her fortunes to a falling star. Though Japan won the war, the peace terms were unpopular, and the press reviled Katsura and his "concubine." With rioters in the streets, O-Koi had the presence of mind to tack a FOR RENT sign on her house, and hid out in a back room. The lovers were reunited before Katsura's death, and O-Koi later entered a Buddhist nunnery, where she died after the end of World...
Gallantry of Course. Saints have traveled a gruesome gamut of agonizing deaths. Blessed Margaret Clitherow, a jolly, capable British housewife who had hid many an underground cleric in her secret "priests' chamber," chose not to plead innocent or guilty at her trial in 1586 so as not to involve her children or Anglican husband-though she knew the penalty for such a stand was being pressed to death. "She was about a quarter of an hour in dying," flat on the ground with a sharp stone under her back and a door on her body with "weights placed upon...
...week reporters beat the bushes for stories, and television cameramen vied with each other for the most sensational shot of the day. One picture sold to a syndicate for $1,500. In this circus-like atmosphere, students were more than willing to perform, while even faculty members rarely hid from the bright lights of national publicity...
Hide & Seek. It was an uphill task. The 20,000 partisans dispersed and hid themselves in their huge country (four times larger than France itself). They operated with precision. Secret cells throughout the country kept them informed of French troop dispositions. They usually struck in groups of 10 or 20 partisans who did the shooting, backed up by some 50 auxiliaries who burned crops and buildings, destroyed livestock and equipment. Sometimes, when French troops made open attacks dangerous, rebels doused cats and dogs with gasoline, drove them flaming into barns or haystacks...