Word: quirks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Team captain John Quirk, and Marshall Jones, both seniors have shown considerable improvement. Junior Andy Campbell, who was out all last year due to injury, looks to be among the top runners. "Fred Linsk, another junior who shows flashes of brilliance occasionally, also appears to be a top contender," McCurdy says...
...Harvard's problem is probably one of consistency except for Rojas," McCurdy continued. "In a sense, it is an inexperienced group at a relatively high level of performance. Jones, Quirk and Linsk have all run excellent races before, and so have Hughes and Keefe...
Then a second quirk of nature suggested another method. Like cats, vampires lick themselves to clean their reddish-brown fur, and they are as clubby as monkeys, eagerly grooming each other. One researcher reasoned that it would be effective to catch a few vampires, daub them with diphenadione, then release them to return home and bleed to death-and incidentally poison their grooming partners...
Norah (Shirley MacLaine) is rich, divorced, anxious, a woman fighting a losing battle against becoming a matron. A familiar enough character, but one with an odd quirk: Norah has an uncommon affection for her younger brother Joel (Perry King), who lives in a shabby flat in the middle of a forbidding Manhattan slum. "Why do you live down there with those people?" Norah nags, but Joel only grins...
...early-form charts on this election would have placed Basil Quirk, 48, an Irish Catholic longshoreman from South Boston, in the camp of Edmund Muskie, the Polish Catholic from Maine. Or perhaps Hubert Humphrey, who dotes on organized labor. Maybe even George Wallace, the sometime Horatio of the hardhats. Those charts have been proved wrong a number of times. Basil Quirk, boxing fan, father of five, proud owner of a three-decker in one of Boston's most solidly working-class areas, is a firm and enthusiastic-supporter of McGovern. Over a dinner of roast beef, baked potatoes, rolls...