Word: packs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bearbaiting questioning of officials and press spokesmen that has become one of Washington's major blood sports. A cynical posture in such reporting assumes all Government to be bad, all privacy to equal concealment and all explanations to amount to lies. The adversary relationship, most evident in rat-pack journalism, gives a false nobility to the second-rate and the lazy...
Chipman's somewhat disappointing 13-10 performance and foilsman Gene Vastola's disastrous one-win last day left the Crimson back in the pack, 17th out of 47 teams, rather than the tenth or better they had hoped...
...when she went out and set a new Division II national record and won in convincing fashion by wearing down the pack with a long 200-yd. sprint, it was big. The Crimson knew it would be in the thick of the competition and Kelly had shown the combination of sprinting and endurance which would take her to two more individual firsts and another Division II record...
After staying even with the pack for the first 200 yards, Kelly turned on the jets for the final 300 to run away with the win. "I thought she'd die in that final stretch, but she really held out and just pulled away," Walsh said last night...
Everything of importance in Company emanates from the score, a barrage of acid gripes, ironic laments and anxious yearnings set to and in between the noisy rattles of urban chaos. Sondheim can pack a stanza with so much cynicism that beyond the wit and polish of the lyrics it becomes almost a cry of pain...