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That final three-pointer by fine little place-kicker Tommy Wynne, ended twenty-eight embarassing minutes of scoreless silence by the first string offense...
Keep It Low. Much has been made of Intrepid's second rudder, which is actually a "trim tab," similar to an aileron on an airplane and is designed to increase her speed to windward besides making her more maneuverable. A second innovation is her skeg, or "kicker," an extension of the keel that is supposed to cut down wave turbulence and make her faster yet. But all that is underwater. What shows above the wa ter line is pretty radical too: a broken-nosed bow, a titanium-tipped mast, a $22,000 sail inventory that includes...
...dissent: "Today's majority does not, in so many words, hold that all wiretapping and eavesdropping are constitutionally impermissible. But by transparent indirection, it achieves practically the same result by imposing a series of requirements for legalized electronic surveillance that will be almost impossible to satisfy." The real kicker, agreed Justice Black, is the court's final secrecy point. "Now, if never before, the court's purpose is clear," said Black. "Since secrecy is an essential, indeed a definitional, element of eavesdropping, when the court says there shall be no eavesdropping without notice, the court means...
...Your Essay is a lot of baloney. Today's sport stars have not, as you claim, eclipsed the great stars of the 1920s. For example, Jim Thorpe could outkick any kicker today. No batter today in the big leagues can even make a good sacrifice bunt. Very few pitchers today can go nine innings, and no pitcher today makes a patch on Dizzy Dean's or Satchel Paige's pants...
...bound for an unwanted House can match the wrath of the student separated from his chosen roommate. The plaster wall of one fourth-floor corridor sports a newly-kicked hole to prove it. The kicker, who said the wall gave very easily, will be floating in Leverett and his roommate, in Dunster...