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Though McLaughlin and Danehy protest that they uphold the Open Meeting Law to the point of avoiding even social contact outside the courthouse, Ralph's suit accuses them of holding private business meetings before rubber-stamping their decisions in public. The minutes of the public sessions show that on seven occasions since McLaughlin joined the board, Ralph has arrived on time and waited as long as an hour for a second member to appear, before adjourning the meeting for lack of a quorum. In every instance, the other commissioners arrived soon after Ralph's own adjournment and held their...
...Next to themselves, they like old-fashioned woolen union suits best. They wear heavy wool pants and, topside, pile on sweatshirts, sweaters, flannel shirts, insulated vests, jackets and parkas. They encase hands in leather mittens with wool liners, feet in two pairs of socks and heavy felt liners and rubber boots that do not leak heat. Some people sandwich a plastic bag between two pairs of socks...
...every silver cloud has a dark lining. Professors complained of students gazing glossy-eyed out of the window while they delivered lectures, and extensive congestion resulted when everyone rushed to the Harvard Coop to buy rubber shoe covers for protection from growing puddles...
Petrovek finished with 17 official saves, most of which involved frozen rubber travelling at the speed of light. And with 1:58 left to play, the senior responded to the tension of a 2-2 game with one of his best, spearing a red-hot drive by Eagle Joe Augustine to keep Harvard in the hunt...
...still waddle to the starting line. Temperatures were in the low 20s, balmy by St. Paul standards, but at the 80-m.p.h. speeds the racers would soon be traveling, the wind-chill factor would make it seem like -20°. Some of the drivers fashioned long tape-and-rubber noses to keep the vapor of their breath from fogging their goggles. Others applied wide strips of tape to their faces to ward off frostbite. Then, setting off in waves of ten, three minutes apart, they were on their...