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...schedule that follows would make a masochist chortle. The University of New Hampshire, Saturday's opponent, ranks low in pre-season predictions, but anything could happen against the rough, young U.N.H. squad in the woods of Durham...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Hockey Team Opens Season Against Bowdoin | 11/30/1966 | See Source »

...awfully easy to pick on Ronald Reagan, and I might get to feeling sorry for him, if I weren't convinced that he possesses a masochist's love of suffering. Just look at the evidence. Back on the gridiron, Reagan had "a collection of the largest purplish black bruises possible. More than once I must have been a walking coagulation." Still, he reminisces, "those were the happiest times of my life." In politics, Reagan found himself "misrepresented, cursed, vilified, denounced and libeled. Yet it was by far the most fascinating part of my life...

Author: By Geoffrey L. Thomas, | Title: Bomb Falls on Frisco | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

...raid had been anticipated for a week, but some of the Pennypacker men were bitter about the lack of resistance. "Only thirteen masochist Cliffies showed up to suffer our assault," one said, while others railed against the seven Crimeds who aided the outnumbered Cliffies...

Author: By T. JAY Matthews, | Title: Pennypacker Tide Sweeps 'Cliffe In Water War Against Whitman | 5/31/1965 | See Source »

...Donald Duck become a masochist? Does the disappearance of Mickey Mouse's goodness presage a decline of the West? How much power is conveyed in "bang" and "pow"? Such weighty questions were debated last week at Bordighera, Italy, at the first international exhibition of comic strips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comics: The Modern Mono Lisa | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...with a harmless though peculiar passion for ladies' underwear. Huston, what's more keeps Iguana scuttling along at a right smart rate, and as always he shrewdly challenges his actors with delegated creativity. They all respond. Kerr lends charm and finesse to a meaching masochist. As for Burton, he makes more sense in this movie than he has in his last half-dozen efforts. He has a light in his eye, a line to his mouth, and the carriage of a man who believes in what he is doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Imaginary People, Real Hearts | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

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