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Author: By Robert J. Campbell, | Title: Pistol Team Meets Resistance In Attempt to Re-Enter Range | 3/6/1980 | See Source »

...Crimson did not take very long to set the pace in Saturday's contest. Displaying the confident shooting that has characterized the team's gutsy struggle toward the .500 mark, the cagers folded, spindled and mutilated a limp St. Anselm's defense...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Women Cagers Demolish St. Anselm's; Martin, Boutillier Shine in Backcourt | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...rest conduct cold, and he must use a heated boot. Nonetheless, he is now skiing as well as ever. Says Marolt: "Even I didn't think it was really, truly possible, but he's done it." Mahre fought back to peak form by the painful expedient of refusing to limp. "If you let yourself limp, it gets to be a habit. If you don't limp, then you won't favor your leg. So I just told myself that no matter how much it was killing me, I wouldn't give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold Rush at Lake Placid | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...purpose of the Hook was to strip the receiver of the ball, his helmet, his head and his courage." The best hit of his career, Tatum recalls, was a Hook to Riley Odoms of the Denver Broncos: "I heard Riley scream on impact and felt his body go limp." (He was not seriously injured.) That kind of fun soon had Tatum vying with Atkinson in a gruesome covert race for the most "knockouts," or players left unconscious (two points), and "limp-offs" (one point). Crows Tatum: "Guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Assassin | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...feeble arguments--from "utterly without redeeming social value" to the more recent "community standards" test--it is obvious that pornography has always been what the individual Supreme Court justices decide it is. It is little more than embarassing, then, to reveal that Justice Brennan cast his vote using the "limp dick standard" or that "for White, no erections and no insertions equaled no obscenity." The Post's crosstown rival, The Washington Star, has long boasted of its breathless gossip column, The Ear. Woodward and Armstrong supply some strong hardbound competition in parts of their book...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Justice on Parade | 1/3/1980 | See Source »

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