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...varsity was at full strength and primed to win. It started out as if it meant of knock off B.C. and thoroughly avenge two earlier Eagle victories. For two-line changes, the puck was constantly deep in the B.C. zone. Twice, Doug Manchester snaked through the defense to got clean shots at starting goalie Chick D'Entremont, only to have both deflected. But that brief flurry represented the high mark of Crimson pressure for the evening. Except for a moment in the final period when Job Bray swung the B.C. defense and poked the puck past D'Entremont...
...intention whatever of fading away. Colleagues were convinced that, given the proper time & place and good prospects of success, nothing would please the old leader more than to be called once again to form a government. Until the right time came, he would let other Christian Democratic leaders knock themselves out. He stayed loftily above the party's internecine quarrels, leaving the impression that Alcide de Gasperi was the one & only man who could bring the party out of its trouble...
...Rico in Little Caesar, Robinson's character is less fragrant. But he is not devoid of a certain fatuous charm: his sentimental inability to knock off a stool pegeon of long acquaintance proves his undoing, thus leaving us a foul moral lesson that somehow cluded the censors...
...eleven-year-old son Hubert strapped his mother to the "windmill" and gave it a gentle push to start it rotating. Behind the windmill were six pingpong balls balanced on tall pillars, and the idea was that Aal, dressed to kill in cowboy suit and ten-gallon hat, would knock down the targets with his .22-caliber rifle by shooting past his wife's rotating body, like a machine-gun firing through an airplane propeller. To the audience, sitting below stage level, it looked as if Aal were attempting the impossible, but in fact, the angle of fire...
...cutthroats and idealists in the country, half a million fanatics organized into twelve-man cells called "families" reaching into every wadi in Egypt. Objective of the Ihkwan el Muslimin: expel the foreigners, return Egypt to the simple brotherhood of primitive, eighth-century Islam. The Ihkwan battle-cry: "We will knock at the doors of heaven with the heads of the British...