Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EACH YEAR the swallow's return to Capistrano and we are reminded that nature prevails and that things haven't changed too much. Other things don't happen quite so often but do give us something to look forward to. A whole generation awaits the 1986 return of Halley's Comet from its 75 year trip around the solar system. A little closer to home every four years Harold E. Stassen runs for president...
...games this season, but a calcified bruise in his thigh. For a senior who with Captain Joe Azelby made up what was considered the best linebacker duo in the Ivy League, his injury during the first scrimmage was. Linebacker Coach George A Clemens says, "a tough pill to swallow." In the first game against Columbia, he had to move to the sideline after the first two plays...
...Harvard football team had hungered for a year. The players considered last season's roughing-the-kicker-penalty-induced, no-time-remaining, 23-21 Philadelphia outcome a raw deal. Much too tough to swallow, Saturday, the fast was over; Harvard flossed with Penn at the Stadium, 28-0, dislodging the bitter remains of last year's devastation...
People turn where they stand into living X rays just before they disintegrate entirely. Fire storms swallow up towns. The images of destruction, mild for a theatrical movie and practically gentle by any factual measure, are still startling by American television standards, and they pack force. Once this montage of immediate death ends, however, The Day After has to get back to its characters, which is to say that it must run on empty. Nuclear annihilation may be the subject, but the film appears to have been the victim of an editorial chain-saw massacre. Whatever the executive reasons...
...Richard Thomas, 32, in a three-hour CBS-TV version to be aired next year, James and Henry seem to have been modeled less on the hardy Duries of 18th century Scotland than the court dandies of Louis XIV's Versailles. Hoot, laddies, can ye no swallow those simpers, at least...