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...Cowboys are happy with the messenger service. Says one player: "The coach has become so conservative-playing mostly ball control-that some guys on the offense feel throttled back. Hell we have the most explosive offense in the league, if Coach Landry would only loosen his short leash...
...year ("Ten days was certainly too much," Pompidou says. "Six at the most"). HEATH. In private, Britain's Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath has spoken acidly of Washington's role in the monetary crisis; he scoffs that the U.S. believes it still has the West on a leash. More than any of his NATO allies, Heath is suspicious of Soviet moves toward detente in Europe. At Bermuda, he will warn Nixon not to get trapped into any unintentional commitments in Moscow on reduction of NATO and Warsaw Pact troop levels; he may also ask Nixon...
...before the first number. They were here to have a good time regardless of what came out of the performance. There were faint echoes of prepared laughter like the canned hysteria of television comedy. Significantly, the concert hadn't started yet because of a Dead equipment failure. Weir and Leash took the opportunity to make some condescending remarks to the kids, suggesting helpfully that they might amuse themselves by "scratching each others' butts" during the interlude in the entertainment. The show that ensued can only be described as a nominal discharge of the group's concert responsibilities. They played many...
...reader is kept on a taut leash of suspense, and the hero finally becomes a breathing instance of a truth that the radical left tends to overlook. However politically useful they may be, gadflies are born, not made...
WHAT would you call a woman who drinks beer, drives a locomotive, or walks a lion on a leash down the street in Boston? Liberated? Pretentious? Health nut? Isabella Stewart Gardner did all these things in Boston in the 1890's; she was cheered, jeered, envied and snubbed. This unusual woman viewed the streets of Cambridge and Boston as canals leading to her inside-out, quasi-Venetian palace just across from the Museum of Fine Arts, on the Fens of Boston. With a mere handkerchief she outbid Europe for a Vermeer, and with her husband's shipping fortune she bought...