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Also, many players feared that a reinstatement would lead to a tread-mill kind of situation in which football would overrun itself with pressures for athletic scholarships1
...that God may well want the human race to wipe itself out. "I am not a pacifist," he told students at Oxford last year, "but it is difficult to see today how there could be a just war. If the choice came between blowing up the world and being overrun by Communism, I still don't think we have the right to blow up the world...
...area, on the fringes of which anti-Communist coffeemen patrol their land with rifles. Born of coffee-bean pluckers but now enjoying a fortune from his tax rake-off, Merchán studied two years in Moscow, returned to indoctrinate Colombians and, around 1930, incited peasants to overrun most of the area's coffee plantations...
...causal relationship between physical injury and cancer in only about six out of every 100,000 cases. Said Auster: "Twenty-five thousand people a day are reputedly injured in the U.S. Only four people per thousand have tumors. Were trauma to have significance in tumor genesis, we should be overrun with patients suffering from cancer incited by war injuries, surgical operations, biopsy procedures, industrial and sports accidents...
...scholarly one, but it seems to overlook [Communism's] conscienceless will to use brute force in gaining what it seeks if everything else fails. The fact that "Europe is vigorous and thriving and fully with us" is hardly comforting in the light of Russia's ability to overrun it, in a matter of days, if she so chooses, at the same time delivering us a crippling blow to ward off any opposition. At any given moment, Russia has that physical and psychological edge...