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Captain Mike O'Malley will hurl this afternoon against the 6-3 Middies. O'Malley most of all has felt the lack of Harvard hitting, as he has lost three close EIBL contests despite pitching well. The senior righty has the fifth best earned run average in the league (2.02) and an 0-3 record...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Nine Faces Key League Tilts | 5/10/1974 | See Source »

...there was a crusty line of sand up the front of his jacket. He looked frightened, but his eyes shone. He pulled from his pocket a handful of round, smooth stones from the beach. "Bombs!" he said. "I went to the beach and got bombs Le Bon Dieu will hurl these at them and kill them, and then put them in a volcano...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: Bombs and Le Bon Dieu | 2/16/1974 | See Source »

...been to the doctor in Calpulalpan, so it should be all right. His daughter, thin, bright-eyed Ofelia, comes out and tells you how she's going to go in the sixth grade in San Martin and then become a nurse. Her younger sisters, giggling wildly, hurl sombreros in the air and watch the wind take them. Her mother, Dona Rosa, invites you in for coffee and sweet breads that she bought from one of the two tiny stores and that Isac and his brother, bakers and sons of a baker, made one morning. Dona Rosa tells...

Author: By Sage Sohier, | Title: Glimpse of a Mexican Village | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...more enlightened American public realizes that it must do something about political campaigns and their expenditures. And perhaps just as important, that a candidate should be able to prove his right to an office on his own merits, rather than on the amount of dirt and slander he can hurl at his opponent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 30, 1973 | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

Across the river from the dead city, the Viet Cong recently erected a huge green flagpole; their banner flutters merrily as ARVN and NVA loudspeakers hurl epithets at each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIETNAM: Butterflies and Spiders in I Corps | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

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