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Elway stands 6 ft. 4 in. tall and does not stand still. Even at a perfectly sculpted 202 Ibs., say the scouts, he has the footwork of a middleweight boxer. Besides Elway's passing ability, they admire his "escapability," a word with a hint of a shiver in it, evoking images of 280-lb. linemen and broken bones. Still, given his choice, Elway asserted he would never elect baseball as a safer course. In his heart, he was a football player who played baseball on the side, not the other way around...
Morning comes at 6:30 when the lights are turned on again, this time for good. People get up from where they've been sleeping, and collapse on the floor in a rough circle around the leadership. I pull on my pants and shiver, leaning against the wall with my blankets wrapped around my legs...
...that night at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 77 new girls were presented to society at the 47th annual Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball. Reading of them, the deb of the year must have felt an end-of-the-ball shiver. "If the press and everybody stop paying attention to me, I'll roll with the punches," Cornelia says. "If they stop," she adds with a giggle, "I'll just say, 'Well, I'm boring now.' " - By Kurt Andersen
...charmed not long ago to ind that Cohen had pitched a total of three major league seasons and won exactly three games. How much delight baseball brought the commissioner, only he ever knew, since he was no better at showing warmth than at acknowledging cold, trying not to shiver in his blazer in he arctic night air at the 1976 World Series in Cincinnati...
...there is no real problem with the Soviets. And some of them have fallen into the habit of saying that a nuclear holocaust would be the greatest of all evils. Yet in religious terms, physical destruction, no matter how horrible, can never be the worst evil. It makes me shiver when it is implied that we should allow ourselves if necessary to be conquered." Others argue that the bishops are overstepping their worldly authority. Says conservative Catholic Columnist William F. Buckley: "I resent what must be viewed as a certain political opportunism. The bishops are entitled to a presumption...