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This week Richard (pronounced Ree-shar) put on his 12 Ibs. of shin & shoulder pads, ankle-length underwear, skates and stovepipe pants, skated onto the ice before Montreal's largest hockey crowd of the season (12,674). Once during the evening, against the arch-rival Toronto Maple Leafs, the crowds got what they came to see. There was a pass, a swift attack by Richard on the cage, a flick of his stick; and The Rocket had scored. The stands rang with cowbells, cheers and whistles...
...pure cussedness none of them had ever seen anything like the job they had to do. The Army was everywhere, from Fort Dix to Chungking, from Reykjavik to Port Darwin. Country boys in khaki, with the hayseed barely combed out of their hair, soldiered at Khorram Shar within hiking distance of the muddy confluence of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Officers who had never been off the pavements set up camps on atolls in the Pacific or led men through the drifting fogs of the Aleutians to new homes that must be built. In the miasmas of Surinam...
...slowly when they are tired. In the eighth round against Sharkey, he began to increase his pace as his admirers expected. Blocking punches with his gloves and el bows, he drove Sharkey around the ring crowded him into the corners, smashed short punches to the side of his jaw. Shar key's left eye became swollen, discolored. Schmeling had a cut lip. In the ninth round then the tenth and the eleventh, it looked as though Sharkey were tiring, as though Schmeling had planned his fight well and might even be able to win as he pleased...
...Still, they couldn't have thought he was Butch Mc-Guiness, the hammer thrower. At least the students knew that here was an old gentleman of academic demeanor who would have nothing worthwhile to contribute if the talk veered around to the relative merits of Camera and Jack Shar- key. If A. Lawrence Lowell wants to know what students talk about he'd better send a dictaphone next time and stay away.. . . He might even hear something about A. Lawrence Lowell...
...people known as the Guti, the ruins of whose cities are now represented by numerous mounds The Guti seem not to have been Semites, but probably of Hittite origin. Most of the proper names in the inscriptions from Nuzi are non-Semitic. Many of these, such as Durar-Teshub, Shar-Teshub, have as their second element the name of the chief Hittite god, Teshub. The language of the inscriptions is Assyrian, with considerable intermixture of non-Assyrian words...