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...other hand, were having a rough season. Plagued by injuries, the team had struggled through the indoor season, finishing third at the H-Y-P meet and a disappointing sixth at Heptagonals. It had further struggled in the outdoor season, finishing a distant third to Brown and Dartmouth in a triangular. Going in to the spring Heptagonals, it had no idea where it would finish...
...well enough that your task, and my nieces' and nephews', will be a little less peculiar, a little less acute. The chain was almost broken; by God, it held. It held because a few thousand people struck stunned and alive by instincts and expensive education's and rough upbringings and deadly cities were able somehow to achieve and maintain the chain outside itself on to your generation, and then clean it as we fixed another link...
...began to write in Texas, McCarthy's published work remained a hard slog for readers who couldn't cut through his syntactical thornbush, but in 1979 he brought out Suttree, apparently the last book set in the South he had in him, and it was rough, gnarly, funny as hell and, for the first time, accessible. Here is the novel on the Big Question...
These are only rough guesses, but what really matters is that buying a share puts you in partnership with the big shots. What comes out of your pocket when they raise the ticket prices can go back into your pocket if the stock price goes up. You can pay for your hot dogs with the dividends...
...skeptics snort about Camelot, but there was something during the Kennedy years that was magic. Jackie was more of that than anyone admitted for a long while. She smoothed the rough Kennedy edges. As much as anyone in those heady days, she grasped the epic dimensions of the adventure. No small portion of the glamour of the Kennedy stewardship that lives on today came from her standards of public propriety and majesty...