Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Pacific Eight Conference. His performance in the second quarter of this year's Washington State game is more or less typical. Spotting a hole in the Washington State defense, Plunkett changed plays at the line of scrimmage, faked a pitchout and raced 39 yds. for a touchdown. A short while later, he drilled a short pass to his fullback for another score. Soon after that, he coolly dropped back into his own end zone, then rifled the ball half the length of the field for another score on a play that covered 96 yds. -the longest pass play...
...passer that professional scouts dream about. The pro recruiters will have to hold off until after New Year's Day, however, for Plunkett and Stanford have all but clinched a bid to the Rose Bowl, an honor that has prompted Jim's teammates to call him H.T.C.-short for "Heisman Trophy Candidate...
...roughhewn. The son of an Irish-born blacksmith, Cushing had a face like a Connemara bogman and a voice like coal rattling down a chute into a South Boston basement. He seemed not so much to live life as to wage it, suggesting that the years were too short for what he had to do. Only his huge energy obscured the truth about how long, and how seriously he had been ill. For years he fought off migraine headaches, ulcers, asthma and emphysema-the latter two so debilitating that he had to keep oxygen at his bedside. Cancer was also...
Miss Gordimer, a South African noted for skillful short stories and liberal positions, lays out Bray's quiet private life and the dark continent's social issues in more than ample detail. Her principal problem, never really overcome, is how to join a low-key character to high-voltage politics without diminishing interest in either. Bray is too often a laboriously illustrated abstraction of honor and decency whom Miss Gordimer attempts to quicken with some peculiarly imprecise and subjective imagery...
Huxley led a short discussion after the trip. "If you take LSD, take at least a week before and a week after the trip to meditate on the act. There are other methods of tripping that take more time than swallowing a pill...