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...will probably be there, along with Super Runner. Cow Man is known in marathoners' circles for racing in a 15-pound, authentic Indian headdress and keeping a pretty wild pace. Super Runner, sporting a full red cape, tights and the proud yellow "S", claims he flys marathons...
...goes on to discuss "welded-steel four-thousand pound artichokes" and sings a chorus about "poppin" Darvon and mothballs" and "sleepin' on paper towels and drinkin...
Gently but relentlessly, the waves of the Gulf of Mexico pound the powdery white sand of the barrier reef off Texas' coast. The clear green water, and the silt and sand it has deposited over the centuries, created Padre Island, and have made it an increasingly popular vacation paradise. Yet what the waves have given, they are now taking away. Gently but relentlessly, Padre Island seems to be falling into...
Callaghan's real troubles, however, began last October when he confounded the experts by failing to call an election that many of them thought he could win. Inflation was 8%, the pound was strong, the unions were peaceful, and the Prime Minister was running well ahead of Margaret Thatcher in popularity polls. Nevertheless, Callaghan passed up the opportunity and seemed inclined to let his government run its full five years, or until October...
...chants have their island-English versions, to wit: The Twelve Days of Christmas, in which "my tutu [grannie] give to me one mynah bird in one papaya tree, two coconut, three dried squid, four flower lei, five fat pig, six hula lesson, seven shrimp as wimming, eight ukulele, nine pound of poi, ten can of beer, eleven missionary and twelve television...