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Harvard coach Dana Getchell said, "When you're nursing a one-goal lead as Andover was, and you see it taken away by two good, quick, hard shots in fifteen seconds, it really takes the starch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '72 Soccer Team Takes Match, 6-1 | 10/31/1968 | See Source »

...catch us; he's fat. He eats too much starch. All day long, he eats starch, and then finds out he can't keep up with a hippie. He takes a good long look at himself in the mirror, and realizes that he can't keep up with a hippie...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: 'The Man' Can't Keep Up with a Hippie | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

More than Rogers, Hope has become the friend of politicians and statesmen, tycoons and sportsmen. These are the public figures at whom he tees off at a banquet or on television; yet they cannot wait to tee off with him on the links the next day. He kids the starch out of them, and they feel better for it; a needle from Hope becomes an emblem instead of a scar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Comedian as Hero | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...your July 24 issue, you had an article about pregnant women eating laundry starch. I really did not believe it. Then I started asking my own prenatal patients, who come in for blood tests at our clinic. My results are four out of ten eat starch, two ate clay, and one was addicted to cement. Unbelievable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 18, 1967 | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...surprise, a friend of mine truly believes that starch is the reason her children were born with light skin. And she is not from the North or South, but came here from St. Croix in the Virgin Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 11, 1967 | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

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