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...chip dip and don't leave all night. I still have a very ordinary, simple person trapped in this rich, gorgeous, successful body." The joke is practiced and sure, but she does not want her listener to miss her point, so she spells it out. "The whole thrust of my existence is that I'm ordinary." It seems important to her to believe this. Another joking statement of the theme: "Everyone thinks of ordinary as some kind of skin disease." Then she quotes the sort of thing she says when she gives a commencement speech: "Most...
...Thrust into the starting position her freshman year when Harvard's goaltending corps were reduced to one. Tate--who had never before approached the world of ice hockey--went on to set every Harvard goaltending record...
...decision to award an honorary degree to Kollek, reported in last week's issue of the Jewish Advocate, has thrust the mayor into the middle of a year-long controversy over University's decision to hold Commence-June 7, a date which conflicts with the second day of the traditional Jewish holiday Shavuot. Not all American Jews recognize the holiday, however...
...local success has thrust Feinstein (pronounced Fine-stine) onto the national stage as an articulate representative of women and a forceful advocate of cities. She is preparing to serve as host of the Democrats' 1984 presidential convention in July, amid flattering speculation that the party nominee just might turn to her when the time comes to pick a running mate. "I would never ask for that job, and I would never run for that job," she insists. But if the nominee telephones to offer her a spot on the ticket, she adds coyly, "I wouldn't turn down...
After the beaches had been secured on Dday, the first order of business was to organize a breakout. It had been an important part of Montgomery's strategy that British forces should thrust inland some 20 miles on D-day itself, well beyond Caen, a commercial crossroads. Partly out of caution, partly out of weariness, the vanguard of the British I Corps halted for the night about halfway there, some four miles north of the city. Compared with the victory on the beachhead, the failure to reach Caen that first day seemed a minor shortcoming. Montgomery even invited Churchill...