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Brown fired. The ball soared by Sigillito, who was also hanging out in the middle, and met Hobdy in mid-stride. The swift senior, a starter a year ago, Jim Curry's back-up this go-around, then made the most of his opportunity and outsprinted the world into the Dartmouth endzone...
...creating an aura. Some scenes seem structured with this purpose in mind; at one point. Nureyev completely upstages a porcine-looking boor in a fashionable Manhattan night club by sweeping the latter's mistress off her feet. The episode, although somewhat gratuitous, is meant to show Valentino's swashbuckling stride. The desired effect is partly produced, but the strain behind the effort becomes obvious...
...never really broke my stride...
...years, $600,000 and an 8-in.thick volume of data later, the 21-member advisory panel on the SAT score decline delivered its findings last week. As Chairman Willard Wirtz, former Secretary of Labor, brusquely summed up the report, the country has been "off stride for ten years." Although the 75-page final report is fraught with qualifiers in the traditional academic manner, the panel came to some firm conclusions about the nature of American schools-and society -that in the experts' own phrase warrant "careful attention by everybody interested in education...
...bread, cheese, milk and chicken; gasoline rose from $1.87 per gal. to $2.40. Although opposition politicians warned that some cuts in the defense budget threatened Israel's security and the big labor combine Histadrut called a desultory one-hour strike, the majority took the bad news in stride. What annoyed many people most of all was that there had not been, as usual, any advance leaks of the measures, so housewives were unable to go on a last minute bargain-buying spree...