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...networks to muscle out the pay-TV upstarts. Yet some of its most ardent opponents were pleased that pay TV will be put to a three-year test. Said American Broadcasting Co.'s Vice President Sterling C. ("Red"') Quinlan: "I hope pay-TV falls right on its rump. I really do not know if it's any good, but it has got to be tried...
...master of the Stirling Castle, which had foundered off the Australian coast. Stranded in the wilderness, Mrs. Fraser was drafted into a tribe whose men roared with laughter at her inability to climb trees after honey, and sped her up the eucalyptus with blazing brands applied to her rump. She was fed on the entrails of snakes and fish...
...handle. Hughes hit a plowed field at the end of the runway. For a long second he lay still. Then he bounced up and started to shake hands with the crowd of Navymen that sprinted up to him. ''You feel a terrific crash on your rump, and the next thing, you are out on the end of your chute,'' gasped Hughes. "I feel wizard, though. Positively wizard...
...stage in order to overhear a conversation better. And they have invented some new laughs. For example, when Benedick says of Beatrice, "I do spy some marks of love in her," the remark takes on a fresh significance through having Beatrice at that moment bending over with her rump sticking out into the audience. Whatever Shakespeare would think of all this, everyone is having a whale of a good time, and takes neither the play nor his own role seriously...
...Reader Kelly that has seen the rump of his mount. Majideh was taken to the Homestall Stud Farm in Sussex, England in 1953 to be covered by Migoli, and returned to Homestall in 1954 to drop her foal. Since a horse is considered to be bred in the country where it was foaled, Gallant Man is English...