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Most stunning of the three losses for the 7-3 Quakers was a 50-49 shocker delivered by Princeton last Saturday at Jadwin...
...widely assumed that the resources-rich U.S. was better placed than other countries to ride out hard economic times. But the OECD economists reckon that the U.S. gross national product will decline by about 2% next year, after a slide of 1.75% in 1974. The real shocker is that the only other major nation that will show a G.N.P. decline in 1975 is battered Italy -and the U.S.'s slide will be the steeper...
...churlish soldier is illiterate, her dismayed brain is soon assuaged by her emotions. "Dear God, she thought, running up the cobbled alleyway, if he was that unschooled, he would need her, he would want to hold her in his life." Bainbridge unwisely changes her novel into a standard shocker on the final pages, but the ones that matter come earlier -shocks of recognition at the commonplace made extraordinary...
...incredible to watch my Republican Party continue to commit piecemeal suicide, the latest shocker being the proposed 5% surtax on the middle and working classes...
...legitimacy to the proceedings. But to those who knew that the vendors were really members of Local 232 of the Bartenders, Waitresses and Concessionaires International, the revelation that this chum in a $150 pressed suit with color coordinated shoes, was actually "one of us" was even more of a shocker...