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...capable of gazing so lovingly upon floodwaters. In the inundations of the past few weeks, after the long drought and heat wave, West Texans stood on bridges over the rivers, over the arroyos and washes, raptly watching the gushing brown waters. So what if a pickup truck or stray livestock went pinwheeling away on the flood? The wilting cotton in fields to the east-some of it, at least-would revive and make it to market after all. The sparse grama and buffalo grass that sheep and cattle had been browsing, almost a blade at a time, would, by West...
Brown came right back on the next series to notch a touchdown of its own, but the Bruins missed the extra point. Its lead trimmed to 7-6, the J.V. gridders came up with a big play late in the first quarter when Crimson linebacker Otto Rutt intercepted a stray pass in Brown territory...
...Japanese are not only fussy about the workmanship at the plant; they are also meticulous about the cars they buy. Customers will refuse delivery of a new car that has a stray smudge of grease or a crooked seat seam. All U.S. cars and most foreign ones must be repainted before they hit local showrooms so that they will conform to higher quality standards. When Chevrolet sent its first Citation X-car to Japan for inspection, the company got back an embarrassing list of 105 defects that had to be corrected before the car could be sold there...
After Israel, the main target of Palestinian resentment is the U.S., which evokes savage condemnations that stray close to open antiSemitism. Says one bitter intellectual in Amman: "You know why I hate the American Government? Because it is not an American government, it is a Zionist government." Frustrated Palestinians often warn of the likelihood of a serious Arab use of the "oil weapon" by mid-1981. Adnan Abu Odah, a Jordan-based director of the World Affairs Council explains, "This is the question: How to make America's awareness of its liabilities outweigh its commitment to Israel...
There were stray shots everywhere...