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...team can get by Tufts and Princeton on Saturday without sustaining any more injuries and, if it can regain some of its injured starters for Brown a week from Saturday, the Crimson will be is a good position entering the playoffs. Any more serious injuries, however, could prove fatal...
...children whirl around madly to produce dizziness or "vertiginous stupor;" they also hyperventilate, inhale the fumes of volatile solvents, experience the effects of ether during operations. As they grow older they learn that such practices are not acceptable to adults, sublimate the desire to experience altered consciousness, and eventually regain social approval of a high by drinking and-or taking drugs...
...half away from the ring, he succeeds only in beating a washed-up Mexican fighter for a $100 purse. Within a year, he is outshined by his own protege, an eighteen-year-old youngster with no previous experience, who has the strength and the discipline Tully will never regain...
...United States to remain in power. He will not tell them that Viet Minh (the direct ancestor of the National Liberation Front) was the only group to mount an effective resistance against the Japanese invader in World War II and against the French colonialists who attempted to regain their imperialist booty after the war. He will not tell them that North Vietnam sent troops into the South only after the United States willfully sabotaged the Geneva Agreements which would have created a stable and peaceful Vietnam. He will not tell them that the United States is losing...
...making their offer (and even drawing a map, which they had always insisted they would do only after face-to-face negotiations), the Israelis had neatly put the onus of response back on Sadat. The offer was far from meeting his stated demand that Egypt must regain sovereignty over all of its territory before a peace agreement can be concluded, and it was questionable whether Sadat could even negotiate on the basis of Israel's proposal and survive in power. But by making the proposal, the Israeli government had probably gone about as far as it could without seriously...