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After winning the toss and electing to receive, the Lions opened with two running plays from their own 27 that amounted to a four-yard gain. And then on third and 6, Columbia quarterback John Witkowski completed a five-yard pass to flanker Bill Reggio that left the Lions just one yard short of the first down...
...bucked up their national courage.) Had the Soviets delayed their attack for a year or two, as KGB intelligence reports recommended, the activities of European disarmers, and the foreign policy blunders of the "abrasive" Republican Administration in the U.S., might have wrecked the unity of NATO. Had the last-toss nuclear gamble of the Politburo struck at New York and London instead of a single English manufacturing city, worldwide incineration could hardly have been avoided. Had several nations of the Western alliance not reversed their pinchpenny defense policies and bought desperately needed new weapons systems in the early 1980s...
...Dole, bypassed him to give the Committee for the Re-Election of the President the chore of running his 1972 campaign. When C.R.P. became deeply involved in Watergate, Dole played good soldier and defended Nixon publicly. "I was sort of a two-gun guy, and if anybody would toss anything in the air, I'd take a shot at it," he recalls. Privately, however, Dole, who has a jolly irreverence for higher authority, kept a few trusted reporters abreast of whatever he learned about the White House involvement in Watergate. When Nixon's taping system was revealed, Dole...
Wright does tend sometimes to toss over his shoulder the wealth of material he sees. In "Old Bud," he writes, "His unbelievable Adam's apple purpled and honed like the burl on the root of a white oak, and he sang his God Damns in despair." Now you see it, now you' don't--the white oak disappears, and the central character. Old Bud, who does has the potential to run wild and become larger than the poem, twists into another image. In cases like these, the prose poem proves even more confining for Wright than the traditional form; everything...
After winning the toss, Harvard chose to play the first half with the wind at its back "to take advantage of UMass's inexperience." Coach Carole Kleinfelder explained later. The decision seemed a good one at first as Crimson attack wing Maggie Hart scored the game's initial goal with an unassisted tally at the 15 minute mark...