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...house, there were foul poles (garden posts) and an on-deck circle with extra bats (if you swung two or more at a time, you were pretty cool). There was a home-made dugout occupied only by the "ghost runners" and even a resin bag (stuffed and clipped white rag) on the mound...
...first vote, a majority of the class voted against having the session at the shanties. We debated another five minutes and on the second vote just over a majority had swung in favor of attending the session. However, by the time we had all made it to the shanties from Lamont, only two or three people had decided to stay away--a testimonial to the intense pressure being felt...
...ripped aside to reveal reality. The staircase leading from the living floor to the aerie where the Ekdals keep caged birds, including the duck of the title, is a noisy, bone-jouncing climb. The family's photo business consists of little more than a giant lamp that can be swung around to shine in the eyes of whoever is being addressed or accused, including the audience...
...society open to opinion polls, it is hard to gauge where most of the 3 million citizens stand in the polarized debate. Dispassionate observers estimate that 15% are hard-core Sandinistas, 15% are militant opponents, and the rest, much like the U.S. Congressmen whose vote last week could have swung either way, blow with the prevailing winds. Although discontent has risen palpably since last October, when the government reimposed a state of emergency, the crackdown on civil liberties has not produced a significant rise in support for either the contras or the opposition parties. Most Nicaraguans seem to accept things...
...Perssons have joined the Hibbing-Las Vegas charter as guests of their son and daughter-in-law, who've also brought along her parents, Bob and Jeanne Johnson. The elder Perssons have previously "swung up into Canada a couple of times" and driven as far as Tennessee, but this is the trip of a lifetime for them. Like other first timers in Las Vegas, they are dazzled, even by breakfast. The $1.99 buffet at a casino called Circus Circus stretches, at least in the recounting, "from here to that telephone pole" across the parking lot. "You had to walk...