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...football coach at St. Paul's, our traditional crosstown rivals. Their patented game plan was to hoof the ball in our general direction, hoping to catch our 'keeper unawares. All their coach had to do was point to our goal at the start of the game and say, "Shoot thataway." The tricky bit came at halftime, when he had to convince the dumb jocks that they now had to kick in the opposite direction! We, of course, played with dribbling skills, artful passing and subtle tactical nous. Even so, in the most fiercely contested school derby of the Indian Himalayas...
Instead, the court is pulled first thisaway, then thataway in a shifting tug-of-war as the Justices align themselves differently on almost every case. That tendency, noted in earlier terms, had been called a temporary phenomenon while a new majority matured. It now seems clear that the nature of this court is not to be an ideological player in the nation's politics, but rather to be an umpire calling the plays of others...
...Dallas Cowboys,' " recalls John Wilbur, a Redskins guard of that time. "It was always 'the goddamned Dallas Cowboys.' " In a ringing inaugural address, Allen pledged never to lose to them. At Dallas that first October a Redskin runner named Charley Harraway ran this-and thataway, every which-a-way, and Allen's credibility was established, 20-16. The very next year, Washington beat Dallas in the National Football Conference title game, 26-3, and ascended to the 1973 Super Bowl...
...forenames were James Butler.) Old Joe, like many of his Western Bund friends, refuses to watch the two U.S.-made westerns currently appearing on West German TV, Gunsmoke and The Virginian. Nobody, he scoffs, ever really said in the Old West, "Sie ritten da 'long " (They went thataway), much less, "Streck die Hände zum Himmel" (Reach for the sky). John Wayne barely escapes Old Joe's fusillade of complaints about Hollywood phoniness. "Inaccurate scripts aren't his fault," he allowed...
...took off. They fought in his store with bottles. They had barrels of beer bottles. They stood there busting bottles over one another's head. My daddy got out and started home, going this-a-way; and Taliaferro got out and started his way, his home was out thataway. And Taliaferro run off out there about 30 yards and stopped and started shooting. He shot three times but he didn't hit him but once, in the back of the head. He never did have time to get out his pistol. I was as close...