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...Spectaror's advantages are not well exploited though. The Ivy Walls yields to the same eyewitness impulse that drives White House nannies to publish their memoirs. They are tempted to tell everything, "just as it happened." The streaming flaming narrative does lend flesh, bone, and color as the press blurb promises; it also jumbles events into a sequence as confusing as living it the first time through. The fine-honed skeleton of the Cox Report may stiffen in its structured divisions and categories, creak in its outline, but it does throw critical events into prominence and leave others...
Mantle believed it. He underwent surgery five times to remove torn cartilage from his knees and bone chips from his right shoulder. For eight seasons he had to bind each leg from ankle to thigh with 7-ft. strips of foam-rubber bandages "to hold things together." Even so, in his final years, he was reduced to hobbling around the field like a cart horse. And at the plate, each time he swung the bat he noticeably winced and grunted with pain...
...REQUEST A TIME AND PLACE with a phrase such as, "Hey, I've got a bone to pick with you." This avoids "Pearl Harbor" surprise attacks and makes the fight voluntary. To enforce persistence, Bach says, boats are ideal; they make it hard for either combatant to escape...
Gallagher is one of four seniors playing for the last weekend in the IAB. Captain Bob Kanuth, who has hobbled valiantly for two weeks on one foot--the other has a broken bone--provided the spark which kept Harvard in the Columbia game in New York. He has played remarkably consistent basketball for three years...
Limping captain Bob Kanuth, hustling as if he didn't have a broken bone in his body. Somehow sparked Harvard into a three point lead with four and a half minutes...