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...season ended on an away field. I embraced two of the coaches, but solemnly shook hands with a limping, crying Walker. We carried Coach McFadden off the field, but it was too far to the buses, so we put him down. By the time the buses brought us back to our school, the season was already stale to us. It seemed a little forced when we threw Coach McFadden into the showers...
...personal financial empire that includes interests in Irish real estate, fertilizer, soft-drink and clothing manufacturing, and personal ownership of Ireland's largest chain of newspapers, including the Irish Independent and the Evening Herald of Dublin. Millionaire O'Reilly brushes aside those suggestions the way he once shook off would-be tacklers in rugby: he insists that he is with Heinz to stay...
...Chancellor Willy Brandt. Black, gold and red West German flags and red and gold Soviet banners snapped in the breeze as the guard of honor clicked to attention, steel-tipped black boots at the prescribed 45-degree angle. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev strode down the steps, shook hands with Brandt and stood at attention as a Bundeswehr band played the two nations' anthems...
...once but several times, a rhetorical ghost from more than ten years ago came back voluntarily. "How's Tricky Dicky?" asked a farmer in the lobby of the bank. A few hours later a small businessman shook his head more in sadness than in anger and remarked, "Well, old Tricky Dicky is in a mess...
...birth of the Polish churchman and scholar Nicholas Copernicus. It was his dryly mathematical, yet brash book On the Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies that dislodged the earth-and man along with it-from the center of the universe, moving the sun into that place. The Copernican theory shook the most basic theological and philosophical canons of the day. Even more important, it provided the intellectual spark for the tremendous acceleration of knowledge that Western culture has since come to call science...