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...great Labour landslide of 1945 petered out into hopeless crisis within two years. Labour's massive victory of 1966 ran into terminal troubles within three months. Today the economy is beginning to overheat, and interest rates will have to rise soon. The Tory party will get to its feet, dust itself off and be transformed into a ferocious opposition by the autumn...
...This habit was especially pernicious in an excerpt from The Comedy of Errors, in which the two actors portraying Antipholus and Dromio rushed and tumbled through their lines so fast that the bawdy jokes (as well as much of the sense of the scene) left the audience in the dust...
Doug Ventura will never forget that fall day in 1981. He and two other police officers from Montgomery County, Maryland, were trying to arrest a man strung out on angel dust when the suspect started kicking Ventura in the side and face, again and again and again. It took four operations for doctors to repair Ventura's fractured spine. But the pain never really went away. It was as if someone had forgotten to turn off a switch somewhere deep inside his body...
While Harvard's Capital Campaign recently surged past the 70 percent mark, the College Library--having raised at most 25 percent of its goal--has been left in the dust of its crumbling books...
Larsen Librarian of the College Nancy M. Cline said last month that the Widener stacks are "turning to dust" because of the combined problems caused by acid paper and a lack of climate control...