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...other's heads. Dan lands a roundhouse right, and Shawn is dazed; his blank blue-eyed stare suddenly brings a hush over the audience. But after a second the boy regains his senses and goes on the attack. He lands a right jab squarely on Dan's nose; Dan reels and then stands perfectly still. In a moment, his face contorts in pain, fear, shock or whatever else a child feels when he's clunked hard. As the tears begin pouring, his father Dan Sr. grabs him out of the ring and holds him. "Barbaric," mutters Craig...
Everything about Kross is big--listed in the football guide as 6-5, 249, he has a massive frame and a large, pleasant face. And if his size doesn't clue you in on what he does for extracurricular activities, a nagging scab on the bridge of his nose tells you that he's been butting heads in the trenches...
Normally, Simeonov's apparent fall would have been dismissed as an accident. Police found no telltale injuries on his body, and a post-mortem indicated death by asphyxiation: the victim had suffocated in his own blood after breaking his nose. But two of Simeonov's countrymen had just come forth with bizarre tales suggestive of a cloak-and-dagger conspiracy concocted by the legendary S.M.E.R.S.H. Since one of the two, Georgi Markov, 49, a friend of Simeonov's and also a BBC broadcaster, had just been murdered in diabolical fashion, Scotland Yard was asking some very stern questions about Simeonov...
...need some rules and regulations. One extreme is not much better than the other ... People may think you're a little weird around here, but they don't bother you. The rule in Muncie is don't make waves. That means you not only keep your nose clean, but you don't cause a ruckus about what other people are doing. People around here will accept just about anything before they get upset. The important thing is to make sure things stay quiet and calm. No one in Muncie ever does anything drastic...
...miles away at the time should not have confused the PSA pilots. There were other hazards. Both crews were facing a glaring sun. Worse, each craft appeared to have entered a blind spot in the other's field of vision. The 727 crew, with the plane's nose up, had limited vision down toward the Cessna; in the Cessna, the high wing above the cockpit obstructed the view upward and to the rear...