Word: wads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brown shoot its wad against Cornell or are the Bruins coming into their own? This could be barn-burner. Harvard 27, Brown...
...OPTIMISTS. Peter Sellers, with a wad of putty on his nose that makes him look like Cyrano with a bob, must prove to a couple of downcast London slum kids that life can be, if not exactly beautiful, at least a little magical. He and his little dog Bella take the kids out busking-singing and dancing and begging on street corners and for theater lines. This sort of activity has a certain ragtag vitality, and compares favorably with the glum life the kids lead at home. They are charmed, a condition that is not contagious...
Next door to the heavily fortified command bunker is the town hall. A small group of tough Cambodian special-forces troops walked in, exuberantly displaying a .50-cal. machine gun recovered from an enemy position that they had just destroyed. General Sar Hor pulled a wad of riels from his map case and handed the reward to Major Kim Phong, the group's commander. "Special forces, can do!" he shouted. Kim Phong, a tall, strapping Khmer with a stubbly beard, who looks a bit like an Asian Lee Marvin, has been a soldier for 20 years, first...
...Mario Tourinho in Rio de Janeiro eight months ago. Drawing as many as 15,000 fans to their twice-monthly games, the teams square off with up to five drivers on a side (the number varies depending on the size of the field). Once the ball, a hood-high wad of hard rubber and canvas stuffed into a buffalo-hide covering, is put into play, virtually anything goes-up to and including head-on collisions. One of the few prohibitions is cutting directly in front of another driver while he is rolling the ball. That violation results in a free...
...result is the exhaustive effort of a New York-intellectual brain with an obvious leftward slant trying to comprehend the phenomenon of a Methodist from South Dakota and a shrewd dealer of the Wad running against each other for President. Mailer remains throughout skeptical, pedantic, perceptive, and, in spite of himself, expressive of his admiration for all characters in the principled or unprincipled pursuit of their goals...