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...final day against Czechoslovakia, the exhausted U.S. team was trailing 4-3 when it got a surprise assist. Russian Captain Nikolai Sologubov, who speaks no English, approached Coach Riley, gestured as if he were gasping, then mimed putting on an oxygen mask. Riley got the hint. He procured an oxygen bottle, gave Bob Cleary and his weary-legged mates a whiff. They promptly rallied for six goals and a 9-4 victory, skated off with the first U.S. gold medal in hockey. When the game was done, the man they mobbed was Goalie Jack McCartan, the sub who had become...
...water but does not bother with them when immersed. Swimmers who need correction for reasons other than myopia usually wear the bigger scleral lens because it is harder to dislodge under water. Skindivers who use scuba favor contacts because spectacles, however ingeniously installed, are cumbersome inside a watertight face mask...
...Innocent, of course, ought altogether to stay away from House dining halls, and break his bread elsewhere. But it is good to hear his other complaints now, before he assumes the mask of reasoned criticism...
...Keate's Eton, a Dickens character sniveling in Dotheboys Hall, or even that refugee from the U.S. prep school, Holden Caulfield, would shed a tear for the winners in the Russian school system. It is a system destined to convert the countenance of a child into the Gromyko mask of panslavery...
...eliminate all possible chance for error, the tests were repeated for a year while the earth completed a trip around its orbit. This allowed for the slight possibility that motion of the solar system as a whole might somehow mask the effect of an ether wind. Still the masers showed no change of frequency...