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Jack Warner had two more roles for his budding star--a migrant worker who becomes a kind of Anglo Cesar Chavez in the vigorous melodrama Juke Girl, and an R.A.F. pilot in Desperate Journey, again supporting Flynn--before Uncle Sam cast him as a stateside warrior. A natural leader, if not a natural actor, Reagan was often cast as a government enforcer and even more often as a soldier. As Stephen Vaughn observes in Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics, "No 20th century President, with the exception of Dwight D. Eisenhower, had been seen in uniform by more people...
...wound up being a 20-yard gain instead of an eight-yard gain. I think [junior wide receiver Brian] Edwards really did well this past year. He wasn’t really thinking about how he was going to catch the ball but how he was going to juke the next...
...spades—but the true measure of a valuable player is his ability or lack thereof to make his teammates better. Over the course of his four years in Cambridge, he has improved from a skilled scorer to a potent, all-around player that can just as easily juke a defender as direct a perfect puck to an open teammate across the ice. And his contributions to the hockey program and the folks in the seats at the Bright Hockey center have not gone unnoticed...
...used to crushing players much bigger than him. But players of his size are supposed to be the finesse guys, the players who try to juke players, not weld them to the boards. Opponents still stuck in this mindset have had a hard time adjusting to Kim’s style...
...week before the Allen show, Elvis put his music and his performance style into cultural contest: "The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. They played it like that in the shanties and in their juke joints, and nobody paid it no mind 'til I goosed...