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...Bruin goalie made the stop--only to have the ball squirt out of her paws--and Ferrante followed it up into the net for the deciding goal...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Women Booters Blitz Brown; Harvard Remains Undefeated | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

...game, winner-take-all playoff. "I'm watching TV, and I see Bucky Dent. I'm lying in bed trying to go to sleep, and I see Bucky Dent. I wake up in the middle of the night, and I see Bucky Dent." Another squint, a squirt of tobacco juice and Zimmer returns to spring. "But that was last year. I'm not a guy who makes predictions, but we've got a good ball club. We'll be in a pennant race again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Once Again into the Breach | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...more he studies, the more it becomes apparent not only that each problem is difficult, but that each is connected to other problems. Remedies for the energy question threaten to increase inflation. Remedies for inflation may raise the level of unemployment. Push down on one issue, and out squirt half a dozen others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The State of Jimmy Carter | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...paranoia, had first ambushed a party of visiting Americans, killing California Congressman Leo Ryan, 53, three newsmen and one defector from their heavily guarded colony at Jonestown. Then, exhorted by their leader, intimidated by armed guards and lulled with sedatives and painkillers, parents and nurses used syringes to squirt a concoction of potassium cyanide and potassium chloride onto the tongues of babies. The adults and older children picked up paper cups and sipped the same deadly poison sweetened by purple Kool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare in Jonestown | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...them, and put your port oars over the buoys. Don't miss 'em, it's ten seconds, but cut it real close--this saves more time than you can imagine. Watch out for crews on your outside (you did get the inside of the turn, didn't you, squirt?) and cut across the river into the center arch, taking ten to push it home. Stay calm, oars over the buoys on that last turn by Belmont Hill...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Friese, | Title: You Say You Want to Cox? | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

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