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...goggles over the eyeholes. At night, I'd dare them to peek into the closet. They wanted to see it, and they didn't want to see it. But one by one they would slowly open the door and go in. When they were inside I put a plug in the wall and the skull would light up and they would scream, and eventually I would let them out. It's amazing that they even grew up. It's amazing that I grew up and they didn't kill...
...handier than their Spanish equivalents. Any Spanglish-speaking accountant knows, for instance, that it is easier to say "nineteen forty- five" than "mil novecientos cuarenta y cinco." Says Judith Schomber, an associate professor of Spanish at Georgia Southern College, who hears Spanglish in the conversations of her students: "They plug in the English words unconsciously. It is done so naturally as to be almost undetectable...
...couldn't take out girls very well--we counted every plug nickel," says Walter W. Birge '35 of Kingston. Mass, who had used to represent Ohio's interests in Europe. "And I'll never forget watching men well apples for five cents on Park Avenue...
...West should cease all forms of technology transfer to the Soviets, not just high tech. Comrade Gorbachev is a realistic man. I am sure that putting himself into Reagan's shoes, he's saying to himself, "What bloody fools these Americans have been in taking so long to plug this hole...
...third-sprightliest mile and a quarter (2:00 1/5) in 111 springs at Churchill Downs. Stephan's Odyssey finished second, more than five lengths behind, and the 6-to-5 favorite, Chief's Crown, was third. Far up the track, or at least it seemed so, came that old plug tradition, which may be losing ground even...