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...anything but a perverted counterfeit of love. But to the innocent eyes of Hélene, Tamara's brusque, boyish charm, her low voice "rough as a cat's tongue," her disordered flat, a jungle den of cigarette smoke and weird African masks, has all the magnetic pull of an adolescent daydream come true...
Williams' varsity soccer team, with six sophomores in the starting lineup, got the jump on Bruce Munro's Crimson booters last Saturday at Williamstown, and, after outcharging them the whole first half, managed to pull out a 2 to 1 victory. Meanwhile, at Marion, the freshman soccer team shut out Tabor Academy in the season's opener...
...quote you used bothers me ... If I said that "the image (of a pretty girl) should pull the heartstrings on the cover of a religious story just as much as she does on a magazine cover," then I must have had in mind several provisos. The quotation is okay if we understand that by "a pretty girl" I mean a wholesome, well-clad gal. Sex and lust can never be successful baits for a soul's eternal salvation, and we certainly do not ever intend to use them...
...accepting it Ike had reversed Teddy Roosevelt's advice to speak softly and carry a big stick. "The new advice is to talk tough and carry a twig" -a policy which "would demoralize the free world, embolden the Soviet Union to new military adventures and, in the end, pull down the world into the rubble and chaos of a third world...
...Republican Party is the healthier in Iowa. Bob Taft's supporters, bitter and unwilling to work at first, have now turned to. The Democratic organization is weak. Senator Gillette, who helped pull Truman through in 1948 (Gillette's margin: 162,448; Truman's: 28,362), has not been working for the national ticket...