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Then, with only 500 meters left, the Quakers made their move and began to inch back on the Crimson. But as the three boats sprinted to the finish, Harvard was able to hold off the charging Penn eight by a half-length at the line...
...dispel speculation. She told the New York Times that she ended the 15-year marriage in large part because she had grown weary of supporting Dorris through his chronic depression. She had lived with his talk of suicide "from the second year of our marriage," she said. "He descended inch by inch, fighting...
...South. Yet when Robinson entered the field, he was incessantly mocked and jeered in the North where all of the major league teams were located. Pitchers threw inside to intimidate him; fans released black cats onto the field; opposing players repeatedly attempted to spike him, once causing a seven-inch gash on Robinson's leg. Moreover, countless teams tried organizing boycotts to prevent Robinson from playing on their fields...
...then pure terror," Bush said last week. "The cockpit was filled with smoke. I could see the flames a few inches from the gas tanks. I stuck my head out, and the wind sucked me out of the cockpit. I must have pulled the rip cord then--too early. My head grazed the elevator at the tail. The chute had several panels ripped out as it momentarily hung up. I was so lucky. An inch or two difference, and I would have been killed by the blow or dragged down with the plane...
Patrons were also amused several years ago on April Fool's Day when the alternative Boston radio station WFNX broadcast all day that the Nine Inch Nails had scheduled a show at the Tasty. Regulars got high quality entertainment for weeks afterward as suburban teeny-boppers came looking for tickets...