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...ladykin, a dressmaker's dummy that has all of her dimensions. To this dummy, whenever the call comes through, flock busy seamstresses with costly fabrics and a sense of dedication and flair that is not often seen, say, at quilting bees. They fit and they pin, they cut and they stitch, and when they are all finished, the result gets its picture in the papers, filled out this time by Jackie herself...
MARTHA. Grapes on a vine! Raisins, more likely. I never saw desert like this before, so hot and dry. The sun glaring down so, all this space ...makes me feel naked. We're just a couple of pins on the Bishop's map! You're a black pin; I'm a beige pin. TER. Now, there, there, don't yourself...the ground is I can feel it. (Standing.) me in mind of one of Pappy's "Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in and thou shalt smite the rock," (he strikes the stage with his umbrella...
...little border war could not be compared with the blood-soaked '20s (it took only 15 lives), but "the boys" managed to do $3,000,000 worth of property damage and pin down 5,000 ill-spared men of Britain's regular army, plus 5,000 militiamen, 15,000 constables and 1,500 special commandos. Last week, as it withdrew from the "occupied area" (i.e. Ulster), the "leadership of the resistance" announced that the I.R.A. had abandoned its war to reunite the Irish Republic with six Ulster counties...
...Fred Pereira was matched with Bob Hannah, a 6 ft. sophomore who had decisioned him in the freshman meet at New Haven last winter. Pereira went after revenge with a vengeance, and while he failed to pin, he did earn a 9-3 triumph...
Harvard lost the final three matches, but Yale failed to pick up enough points to overcome the Crimson lead. Art Mann pinned John Valentine at 177, and Dave Plimpton decisioned Paul Schnits in the 191-pound category. A Yale pin in the heavyweight match would have given the meet to the Bulldogs, but Bob Fastov managed to hold the line, losing a 5-4 decision on riding time...