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After playing at the Squirt level in Ontario, the Sweeney family returned to New Brunswick. Then, the year before high school, at age 14, he made an important decision to play Junior B instead of Bantam...

Author: By Jessic A. Dorman, | Title: '88's Eight: Hockey Freshmen | 3/2/1985 | See Source »

...really dominated them in the third period," Ward said. "We hit the post a lot of times." Unfortunately for the Crimson, none of those shots managed to squirt past Gilbert...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Big Red Derails Icewomen, 2-1; Harvard's Ivy Hopes Demolished | 2/19/1985 | See Source »

...there at the creation. His enlisted-man's version of brain-storming days at Los Alamos seizes the spirit of the place with typical zest and informality: "What (Hans) Bethe needed was someone to talk to, to push his ideas against. Well, he comes in to this little squirt in an office and starts to argue, explaining his idea. I say, 'No, no, you're crazy. It'll go like this.' And he says, 'Just a moment,' and explains how he's not crazy, I'm crazy. And we keep on going like this. You see, when I hear about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Quark: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

...badger, Stewart notes, can tunnel into the earth so fast that ten men with shovels cannot keep him in sight. Texas horned toads can, when angry or excited, actually squirt blood from the corners of their eyes. No animal seems more, well, humane than the American lobster, as portrayed by Stewart. Most sea creatures are love-them-and-leave-them suitors, impregnating their mates, then allowing them to fend for themselves. Not the crustacean, whose mate must shed not only her defenses but her shell when she visits his underwater den. Sensing something about vulnerability, he lets her stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...Iraqi Third Corps is fighting in the area around Basra, insisted that there were no such weapons within his command. He pointed out that poison gas would be extremely difficult to use in a close-combat situation. But he added, "If you gave me some insecticide that I could squirt at this swarm of mosquitoes, I would use it so that they would be exterminated, thus benefiting humanity by saving the world from these pests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Clouds of Desperation | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

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