Word: skips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William [Skip] Knight...
Inevitably, the litany of suffering recited by Ugandan refugees provokes the question: How will it all end? Some argue that Amin-who for security reasons may skip this week's summit meeting of African and Arab heads of state in Cairo-will surely be killed one day by some segment of his army or police force, if not by a lone assassin. But that would not necessarily mean the end of Uganda's troubles. The restive Christian majority might then be in a position to settle its own long list of scores and grievances. There could well...
Pennsylvania's Skip Suss brought the puck out of the corner in the Harvard end Saturday night and put an eight-footer past Crimson netminder Brian Petrovek with a mere 22 seconds left in the game to topple the visiting Harvard icemen...
Remember those hundreds of pages of moralizing on fate and history at the end of War and Peace which you were always tempted to skip, preferring to have Andrei's death scene with the grieving Natasha at his bedside go on and on? Well, in the adaptation of Tolstoy's epic novel which visiting director Norman Ayrton is staging in the second mainstage slot this season at the end of March, the romantic glow doesn't fade because the moralizing comes first. In the stage version the voice of Tolstoy has been fleshed out as a narrator...
...like the color of his shirt and the watch on his wrist. Why the watch? "So I can see what time it is between the second and third games," he said--at exactly 5:43 p.m.--after a 15-7, 15-4, 15-3 thriller. And why the shirt? Skip it, that...