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Colgate has dropped four heartbreakers by one goal and has let a couple of teams off the hook, such as Cornell. The Red Raiders had the Big Red tied 3-3, going into the final half of the third period. Cornell won that...
...What many members of the House would really like, of course, is for Nixon to resign, taking the House off the hook. That, too, is true on both sides of the aisle, though no House Republican has thus far dared publicly voice the feeling. (On the Senate side, the only Republican to call for resignation so far has been Massachusetts' Edward Brooke.) Democrat Frank Thompson Jr. of New Jersey puts it bluntly: "Most guys hope and pray for a resignation. I can think of 25 Republicans I know who will have to vote for impeachment to save their skins...
...finally, the Crimson icemen let Cornell off the hook (a three-goal hook) to allow the Big Red to snatch a 5-4 overtime victory from the jaws of defeat. It was a game of breaks, and Harvard just didn't seem to get them the way Cornell did. "We couldn't have played any better," Cleary said...
...plot with a higher and more violent purpose and had the call traced. By the time the smugglers' plane was in the air, it was already photographed and under constant radar and photographic surveillance. Which just goes to show James's ingenuity and initiative in getting off the hook. Still, the life of a dealer had deeply affected James, the son of an unbending man who when the family used to live in the hills of North Carolina, other relatives used to send their boys to him to be raised according to the Bible...
...massacre, asked the Kuwaitis to treat the prisoners "without pity or mercy," the Kuwait government promised to inflict "severe punishment." By week's end it announced that it might be willing to turn the murderers over to the Palestine Liberation Organization for "trial" -thereby letting Kuwait off the hook...