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...typical football fan doesn't recognize or appreciate the accomplishments of an offensive guard. He doesn't cheer for the line man when a hole is created so Scottie McCabe can slip through for 15. He applauds only when he witnesses a Donnie Allard TD toss or a Jim Villenueava 42-yd field goal...
...Slip-ups by Emery's own campaign have also asked Mitchell in his comeback bid. An early Emery statewide campaign mailing claimed that Mitchell was soft on defense and offered as proof an alleged rating of zero given Mitchell by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. But the VFW made that rating when Mitchell had only been in the Senate for two months and had not yet voted on any major defense legislation. Emery was forced to make an embarrassing retraction, and later fired his campaign manager and press secretary...
Princeton retaliated just two minutes into the second half on a freak play that caught Coogan flat-footed. In the confusion, surrounding a rebound of an earlier shot. Tiger striker. Steve Milke managed to slip a slow dribbler past "an immobile Coogan on the other side of the net Screened on the play, the Harvard goalie never saw the shot until...
...talented, attractive and popular, the embodiment of family hopes. Bonnic's parents were spared the Websters' long agony of uncertainly, but they suffered the doubts and delays of a comparable ordeal--fighting with a court system that repeatedly seemed about to let their daughter's murderer, Richard J. Herrin, slip through its fingers...
...into the next day, helicopters and planes flew overhead, dropping water and chemical retardants on the blaze. Although some 700 men were spread out along the length of the fire, its sheet magnitude made even this massive effort miniscule. Wherever resistance was weak and the fire could slip through, tales of tragedy emerged one of the saddest was that of the exotic animal farm in Newbury Park. When the owners of the farm realized the fire was closing in and they could not get the animals out, they opened all the cages. But few of the rare animals escaped. Among...