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...door blown in," Kevin Kallaugher said, summing up the Classics' opening encounter with the national team. Despite the 86-50 debacle, the team was never nonplused after hitting the hard-wood of Mayaguez in their third crack at the Puerto Rican squad...
Redford was also disappointed by the script. It lacked details and substance on the matter that had come to interest him most?the newsgathering process. At this point, Bernstein took a crack at rewriting the script, but that, too, proved a mistake. Bernstein apparently built up his image as the more swinging member of the Woodstein team. "Carl," Redford told him, "Errol Flynn is dead." Thereafter, as Bernstein puts it, "Redford got on the script in a concentrated way." He squeezed a couple more revisions out of the miffed Goldman, who was eager to get on with adapting his Marathon...
...contracts and become free agents. But each would then be put in a "reentry" pool where only eight of the 24 teams (including his old club if it wished) could bid for his services, with the teams that finished lowest in the previous year's standings allowed first crack at being among the eight...
Like others, she seeks out the view from the Truman Balcony. She sniffs with special pleasure the scent of magnolia blossoms that are outside her bedroom window, the tree having been planted 140 years ago by Andrew Jackson. The crack of the White House flag in the wind is a reassuring greeting on breezy days. At lunchtime, she searches for the sun in the solarium on the third floor...
...William Harris when he was arrested. Browning argued that the Harrises would never have given Patty such secrets unless they trusted her. The code was dismissed by Associate Defense Counsel Albert Johnson as "the kind that would be used by Captain Midnight," but it took Furgerson two weeks to crack...