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...Crimson boasts defensive standouts Tommy Joyce and Bob Baggott, whose game-saving exploits on defense would have Woody shooting his recruiter at sundown if he only knew. Jim Kubacki had the kind of game against Brown last season that Nebraska quarterback Vince Ferragamo yearns to pull off just once. Brown has a passing combination of Paul Michalko to Bob Farnham that make Wishbone-oriented teams look like turkeys...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Sadists vs. Ivies | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

Twelve years later the amputated toes of two of the climbers serve to remind them of the costly mistake they made by reaching the summit of Everest just before sundown. Unable to return along the ridge in the darkness, they huddled together through the night against the cold. Their toes didn't bother them till they returned to base camp three days later and their feet began to thaw. Because of the pain in their toes they had to be carried down by porters...

Author: By Clark Mason, | Title: Peril and Stress of Mountain Climbing Told As Scientist Recalls Everest Expedition | 11/26/1975 | See Source »

...first, "with a low, shop-keeping mind," without staking itself to any lofty principle. Fifteen years of experience in war has taught Bluntschli that the most important principle is to save one's skin, and when the mortally offended Sergius ("Our romance is shattered") demands to meet him at sundown with his sabre, the Swiss submits bluntly that he will bring a machine gun. Clark plays the chocolate cream soldier competently if monotonously, as a debonair impostor. He is forever raising his eyebrows to convince the audience of his nonchalance, and if he really had to incorporate the cigarette...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Fleecing the Bulgarians | 4/16/1975 | See Source »

...Sundown" Waldman finds release in a powerful voice and a wide octave range reminiscent of Laura Nyro's throaty songs. It's almost as if her own voice were going down over the Pacific, getting big and red, sending its rays across the waves and sparking the water itself into a "wintertime sundown fire." But you wish that the sun would help her when she asks it to "carry my spirit just another time 'round" because the album begins to fizzle out at the end to the first side...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Searching for the Queen of Hearts | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...temperature is near freezing after sundown. On rainy days, the muddy lanes of the refugee camps turn into streams and water seeps into the tents. On cold nights, hundreds wander like ghosts into nearby towns to bed down in cafés or hotel lobbies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Bitter Lemons In a Lost Paradise | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

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