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...were a bus full of fed-up people. The magical summer heat had revived our fires, for months smothered by three-foot New England snowdrifts, and now we were burning bright and fed up--fed up with waiting, problem sets, deadlines, mortgages, schedules, responsibilities, and most of all, promises. We were out to put all the promises behind us, even as the road to Boston slid back behind us--who needs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of Pennant Fever | 4/14/1978 | See Source »

Well, there is no joy in Mudville. Cornell's Charlie Brown took a long downcourt pass and canned a three-foot hook shot, his third such shot in the last five minutes, to give the lead and the game to the Ithacans...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: Women Cagers Romp But Men Drop Thriller | 2/25/1978 | See Source »

Late on a balmy summer night in 1974, the kitchen door of Allen and El-nita Carver's two-room house was suddenly thrown open. In stepped Coker, 24, a convicted rapist and murderer who had just escaped from a nearby prison. Brandishing a three-foot board, Coker forced Mrs. Carver, who was still recovering from the birth of a son three weeks earlier, to help tie up her husband in the bathroom. That done, he grabbed a steak knife and assaulted her. He then took her with him as he fled in the Carver car. Sheriffs deputies captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Arguing About Death for Rape | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...roaring up this little ramp-like section of road and Chuck was going to turn right, up U.S. 119 towards Clendenin, and Elvin was supposed to go left. Everybody came out of the Elkview Dairy Bar to watch. On the other side of the main highway there was a three-foot ditch and a twenty-foot rock cliff. Somebody asked Elvin what he'd do if he couldn't make the turn and hit the cliff. Elvin said he'd jump that son-of-a-bitch...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Please Don't Bury Me | 1/6/1977 | See Source »

...hoopsters then travel to South Carolina, as in the Atlantic Coast Conference, for the Carolina Classic. A first round win would mean a matchup with either Georgetown, 17th in Sports Illustrated's top 20, or Alabama, ranked 7th in the AP and UPI basketball polls. And you thought three-foot snow drifts were...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: You Thought You Had It Bad | 12/17/1976 | See Source »

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