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SPIRO AGNEW. He "has a neckless, lidded flow to him, with wrap-around hair, a tubular perfection to his suits or golf outfits, quiet, burbling oratory. Subaquatic. He was almost out of sight by campaign's end; but a good sonar system could hear him burrowing ahead, on course...
Banner scored two more tries in the second half. Ordway added a two-point conversion after Banner's score to wrap up Harvard's scoring...
HUMAN kind cannot bear very much reality," wrote T.S. Eliot, and few businessmen would disagree. Since appearances are important in business as elsewhere, executives are quick to wrap their troubles in euphemisms, or at least camouflage them in obfuscating language. Many companies have been uncommonly troubled by the recent recession, which some experts prefer to call a "recedence" or "retardation," and by new attacks on industry's social conscience. One consequence is that the linguistic fog has begun to thicken in annual reports, executives' speeches and other official statements. A sampler...
There are complications. The nerves are the body's communication system, carrying messages from the brain to the muscles, and any damage, no matter how well repaired, tends to slow down transmission of nerve impulses. To guard against the formation of scars that could impede the impulses, surgeons wrap the freshly sutured ends with fine Silastic tubing, a procedure not unlike wrapping a hair with plastic film...
Scathingly, McGovern argued that "it does not take any courage at all for a Congressman or a Senator or a President to wrap himself in the flag and say we are staying in Viet Nam-because it is not our blood that is being shed." But, he predicted, the young men who are sent to fight "will some day curse us for our pitiful willingness to let the Executive carry the burden that the Constitution places on us." McGovern claimed that his fellow Senators had contributed to "that human wreckage all across our land-young men without legs or arms...