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...meted out to those who refuse to resign when accused of cheating but against whom there is insufficient evidence for dismissal. Immediately, Pelosi became the Quasimodo of the Point. He ate alone at a table meant for ten, an easy target for the ice cubes that fellow cadets would lob at him during dinner. His mail was opened, his clothes were dragged through the latrine, his person threatened by anonymous callers. None of the cadets talked to him except on official business. "West Point is extremely isolated from the outside world anyway," he explained last week. "There...
...supposedly ended was still going on. The North Vietnamese continue to pour in men and supplies along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and they have as much firepower in the South as they did when they launched last spring's offensive. Every day they blow up bridges, lob hand grenades and pepper various government-held positions with small-arms fire...
...serve, interrupted play to swat at a fly with his racket, and soccer-kicked a ball to the sidelines. The crowd lapped it up, but Smith refused to be shaken. Leading 10-9 in the first set, he responded to a Nastase charge at the net with a soft lob that landed on the baseline to give the American the set. The gallery quickly piped down, and was not heard from again as Smith went on to win in straight sets...
Goalie Peter Zurkow weathered Brown's violent attack with a number of fine saves. "Brown's favorite trick was to lob the ball just outside the penalty area in hopes of drawing me out of the goal's mouth," said Zurkow. "I fell for that a couple of times and they went around me or ran me over...
...THINK I'd like to see more rapport between older black writers and younger black writers. I think the publishing industry has had us in such a bag-you know, we're gonna give you this as an advance, but you don't tell lob how much you got cause we didn't give him this much. And the critics like Jimmy Baldwin, but they hate Ernie Gaines, and it'd be a disaster if them two cats got together. And all the rest of that, which is nonsense. I mean, you view the white literary establishment: Styron, Roth...