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...brown nose Peter Vellucci Democratic candidate for State Representative 29th Middlesex District, His further, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, took this class years ago. Did knows all the professors and the section leaders, he has the answers to the problem sets in his scrapbook. Peter is stressing his familiarity with the East Cambridge neighborhood over his knowledge of the subject matter. There's no reason to expect it won't work...
...look carefully, his elders told him, you might see him in the back of the car. Melamid never did, but a yearning for the ogre is commemorated in I Saw Stalin Once When I Was a Child: the red curtain in the rear window slides back, revealing the fleshy nose, the twinkling eye of the Dreadful Father. "To us," Melamid points out, "Stalin is a mythical figure. We are not trying to do a political show. This is nostalgia...
Except for his proud Gallic nose, the author blends in. He dresses in native furs, cracks the whip expertly over his sled team, and gnaws blubbery popsicles in the glow of an igloo oil lamp. He falls into the rhythms of polar life and begins to view this white-on-white world through the eyes of an Inuit...
Later that evening, a second submarine was detected trying to nose into the bay, apparently seeking to aid its imprisoned comrade. The new arrival later gave up and backed away from the barrier netting. At about the same tune, Swedish officials exploded three mines by remote control after detecting a sub passing outside the bay. Again, nothing was found...
...some passengers [members of the rescue team]. The rest are being extricated by C130. [In taking off to move away from the loaded planes, the helicopters' swirling blades had kicked up clouds of dust. In the poor visibility, one of the helicopters had flown into the nose of the airplane, which itself was preparing to take off. The two aircraft were engulfed in flames, and it was impossible to extract the bodies of the dead Americans. All others were loaded into the other five C-130s and left Desert One, en route to Masirah, a small island...