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...ferocity became legion. They routed the Afghans at the Battle of Attock in 1813, and in 1849 they delivered a stinging defeat to the British at the Battle of Chillianwala. After they were forced to succumb to superior British firepower six weeks later, the Sikhs became among the sturdiest and trustiest men of the British army: during the great Indian Mutiny of 1857, the raj was kept alive by their support. After the British slaughtered nearly 400 civilians, many of them Sikhs, at Amritsar in 1919, the warriors changed allegiances and joined the crusade to bring down the raj. Sikh...
...Beathard, who arrived in 1978, was required to find talent in low places, and he developed a knack for it. The sturdiest section of the team, the offensive line, is the best example. Left Tackle Joe Jacoby, an undrafted giant from Louisville three years ago, is now an all-pro. "Running behind Jacoby," Riggins says, "you can't see anything else." Jeff Bostic, a plump center once cut by the Philadelphia Eagles, was hired several years ago solely to hike for kicks (the regular man had contracted snapper's "yips"). Now Bostic is also starting the Pro Bowl...
Among countless deceptions over the ages, a few have gained transcendence, not only affecting history but achieving a vigor of their own. Three of the sturdiest and most influential...
Squeers' swinish daughter Fanny, a lilt-ingfemmefatale in the Crummies' troupe, a bitter near-deaf crone called Peg. By sulking or shrugging or exacting fatal revenge, she spins three sprightly variations on the theme. Nicholas' sturdiest friend and Kate's most dastardly seducer are both played by the same actor: Bob Peck has a biathlon field day exhibiting the far poles of man's temperaments. Even John Woodvine, a bleak house of malevolence as old Ralph Nickleby, gets to sing as the star of a comic opera skit...
...Guinness now and again, a cause. But he killed himself the hardest way there is. He had to make his decision every second of the 66 days: around him men ate three times a day, and before long the food at Long Kesh prison must have looked like the sturdiest pub fare. Bobby Sands said no, said it every day, while his body ate itself, till he went from 155 pounds to less than 80. Those who saw his body, and there were thousands who filed through the parlor of his project home, said two Bobby Sands could have...