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Mike Milbury shone on the blueline in the quarters; he and Brad Park will try to hold back the waves of bleu, blanc et rouge so Cherry Cheevers won't have to play miracle man. He will, but it won't be enough. Montreal in six. Again. Islanders vs. Montreal. Enjoy the appetizers...
Carter aides cast the journey in personal terms, almost as if the President stood apart from the nation. Their accounts of Carter's determination shone with the bright hopes of the missionary, the sense left with listeners that only Carter could bring the healing grace...
...dizzy spell when they've misjudged a fly ball. But this baby can't even go to bed without apologizin', and I bet he excuses himself to the razor when he gets ready to shave." Runyon's patented style, stilted formality mixed with slang, shone to good effect in Baseball Hattie: "There she is, as large as life, and in fact twenty pounds larger." In The Pitcher and the Plutocrat, Wodehouse turned the game into a society romp; a newly impoverished young man gets the girl and her father's millions by starring...
...season progressed, the racquetwomen did not. A ray of hope shone through in the Crimson's 5-2 loss to a Princeton team that uses high-powered recruiting to secure the country's most devastating squad. Only a couple of cliffhanger losses and a default due to injury prevented the racquetwomen from upsetting the Tigresses in Jadwin Gymnasium that Sunday afternoon...
...band played well, never drowning singers out, but its sound sometimes became a bit muddied on the long trip from the back of the Loeb stage into the auditorium. During the entr'acte, when the curtain which hid the musicians lifted and the spot shone on them for a change, the murk cleared, and the audience could pay some attention to the type of music Ellington wrote without singers' personalities intruding...