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...hard to wipe away a situation like this in one year," the ex-guard continued. "My emotional attachments are with Yale but my professional attachments are with Harvard...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Women Cagers Set to Guard Ivy Lead | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

...Trucks or jeeps are hidden beneath nearly every acacia tree. Antiaircraft guns are on constant alert. Every rebel building is covered with vines and tree branches; * some permanent structures have 2-ft.-thick stone walls that can withstand barrages of shrapnel. Civilians are regularly lectured on how to wipe burning napalm jelly from their skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia a Forgotten War Rages On | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...long time to write a successful script. Gremlins took nine drafts, including one which killed off most of the family. Goonies was tapped out much more quickly, under studio pressure, but Young Sherlock Holmes's first draft took nine months and the second draft six, as Columbus tried to wipe the script clean of any "Americanisms" or anachronisms...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Chris Columbus | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...there in dumb terror, trying ineffectually to wipe vodka and tomato juice off my pants with an airsickness bag, the plane executed a series of dives and rolls that would have been difficult in a fighter plane, let alone a DC-10. To my great displeasure, I found my sentiments echoed loudly by a two-year old in the seat behind me, who let loose a bloodcurdling screech with every undulation of the plane. Eventually, the head steward clawed his way to the intercom and coughed to get our attention. I halfway expected him to begin showing...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Thanks for the Blues | 12/7/1985 | See Source »

...plus many carrier-based and land-based tactical aircraft in Europe and Asia, would be counted as strategic. Soviet medium-range bombers, on the other hand, would not be counted, nor would the Kremlin's intermediate-range missiles, most notably the triple-warhead SS-20, even though they could wipe out Western Europe. By adding up virtually all "forward-based" U.S. nuclear weapons while at the same time refusing to count Soviet weapons capable of hitting Europe or Asia, the Soviets would be stacking the deck against the U.S. before cutting it (see chart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mix of Hope and Hokum | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

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