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...remember coming to see Stalin at the beginning of the war at the High Command Headquarters on Myasnitskaya Street. He was by then a sack of bones in a gray tunic. He asked me, "How's it going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Khrushchev's Secret Tapes | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...pump them up," Gordian said. "In that situation, we needed to make a big play. The ball's down on the 15-yard line and they have a good field goal kicker. So, it wasn't enough just to stop them there. We had to get the ball or sack them, get them out of field goal range...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: The Defensive QB That Ruined the Lions' Strategy | 9/18/1990 | See Source »

...begin with two days and nights isolated, standing up, handcuffed, with a sack over your head. You just hear crying, loud voices, an iron door slamming. You are very frightened. If you fall, they throw cold water on you to wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Intifadeh Of the Soul | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

...open, other skills come into play. Grocery checkouts involve a race against time: the checker shovels your purchases toward you while you try to stuff them into a bag. Don't forget your market basket either, else you'll have to buy a plastic bag -- or several, since each sack only holds approximately 2.3 items. Meanwhile, the people in line behind you start to grumble and push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Shopping Hell | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

PROFESSOR Jim Davis' letter to The Crimson on the Social Studies program was meant to be taken seriously, and I write both to support his views, and to respond to the rather predictable outcry from my respected colleagues, [Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France] Stanley Hoffmann, [Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy] Peter Hall and, most recently, [Coolidge Professor of History and Professor of Economics] David Landes...

Author: By Orlando Patterson, | Title: Sociology is Sufficient | 4/5/1990 | See Source »

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