Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first-half stats proved none too good for the boys from Cambridge, as their scoring punch was severely missed from both Glenn Fine and Bob Hooft who registered about as much offense as an old lady from Dubuque, teaming up for a mere two-point total in the stanza...
...does Haldeman know that? Says he: "This isn't mere conjecture on my part. It's backed up by Nixon's own words, as revealed over and over again in the tapes. Nixon knew what had happened." Indeed, various Nixon tapes do show him believing that "Colson must have done it," "There's no way he wasn't involved." This evidence is neither new nor indisputable. Colson, predictably enough, said last week that "Haldeman's reconstruction of events may be the biggest hoax since Clifford Irving...
...hard hit. With main roads impassable after the 26-in. snowfall, Governor J. Joseph Garrahy ordered all Rhode Island businesses, except for grocery stores, to close. Not until this week was the state expected to return to normal. By comparison, the blizzard left New York City paralyzed for a mere 24 hours and entirely spared the Midwest, which was still digging out from a late January blizzard, that region's worst in a century...
...from creatures wriggling in the ooze. Those superintendent beings surely will not be housed in the more or less human shapes portrayed in Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In a cosmos that has endured for billions of years against man's mere million, the human form is not likely to be the standard form for intelligent life...
...pity. The true Freak, however, stirs both supernatural terror and natural sympathy, since, unlike the fabulous monsters, he is one of us, the human child of human parents, however altered by forces we do not quite understand into something mythic and mysterious, as no mere cripple ever is. Passing either on the street, we may be simultaneously tempted to avert our eyes and to stare; but in the latter case we feel no threat to those desperately maintained boundaries on which any definition of sanity ultimately depends. Only the true Freak challenges the conventional boundaries between male and female, sexed...