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Things at the SSS have been pretty quiet since 1973, when they stopped registering young men for the draft and fired 6900 of the department agency's 7000 employees. But since President Carter woke up to the Soviet threat--and decided that registering people for the draft not only would show the Kremlin what "grave consequences" await it but also might grab him a few primary votes--the people at SSS, all 78 of them who work in the Washington office, have been pretty busy. After all, it's not every day that you gear...
They drove to the top of the canyon when Rick woke up. He still looked sleepy, rings under his mustache and all. Sammy drove up the wire past the glittering mailboxes until the road leveled out and a new valley peered up at them. Wow, said Sammy. Rick took pictures to send back to his girlfriend in Missouri. Wow, said Sammy...
...Sammy woke Rick and they began again. Snow sat at the top of the mountains and Sammy and Rick imagined they were skiing instead of driving. They coasted down one mountain and crawled up the next until they were both hungry and the car wanted...
...kept Reagan out of the fray, cost him the victory in the caucus. In advising Reagan to be less strident, Sears had made him more monotonous. Says Nofziger: "Reagan always was a slow learner. He just had to be hit by a two-by-four one more time. He woke up to the fact that he was not running his own campaign. He realized that Sears is cocky, pompous and arrogant...
Yale jumped out to an early lead, catching a sleepy cager squad unaware as the Bulldogs piled up a 20-point lead after ten minutes of play. Harvard woke up and pulled to within ten points by the half, but the elusive Elis never let their lead slip any further and stacked up insurance points in the second half...