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...standard Harvard play, a guard will dribble in close to Williams, who stands at the foul line with his back to the basket. The guard will then either take a shot, using Williams as a screen, or out for the basket, using him as a pick to scrape the defender...
...amateur Grand Guignol about a pair of sleazy, sullen chambermaids running amuck in Bedlam. When they are not dancing or screaming, they stab the furniture with hatpins, chip the plaster, bring in termites, pulverize the best china, wallop their mistress, throw fish at her daughter, uncork the wine vat, scrape rubbish off the floor and dump it into the master's soup. "What did you put in the closet?" asks one. "The chicken droppings," replies the sister...
...Liberals still hope to play an important role in the new government. Reason: it is quite possible that whoever wins, Tory or Labor, will scrape in with so small a margin (20 seats or less) that it will be necessary to seek Liberal support on major policy issues. Liberal Leader Jo Grimond, while avowedly reluctant to hold the balance of power, is already discussing the "terms" on which his party would "cooperate...
...over an El Paso building reads "Billy Sol Estes, Importer and Exporter of Fine Products," and though Pecos Bill is listed only as an "employee" of the shop (one way to avoid a stampede of creditors), it looks as though he is starting up for real in the Mexican scrape and sombrero business. A yellow sunburst on the sign, lit with 476 flashing lights, will surround the well-known, smiling face...
...been president of the Chamber of Commerce during the darkest days. Under his determined guidance, a 550-acre site near town was bought for $10 an acre as an "industrial development park." Not long after, the Pennsylvania state legislature passed a law providing loans to towns that could scrape up outright contributions from townspeople-as well as bank loans-to attract new industry. Dessen got a local organization going to get the money, dubbed it CAN DO, then spent three weeks trying to dream up some words to fit the initials. Finally he came up with the coherent if colorless...