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...come up with a few surprises. Split End James Mallard, a world-class track man until a few weeks ago (in 1979 Mallard ran the world's second fastest 200 meters), played the first football game of his life against Georgia Tech. He caught the first pass ever thrown to him and, naturally, outran Tech's defenders for a touchdown...
...asks the reader--Percy? Allison? It would be very easy for he author to clean up some of these passages--like Barrett's first-person tirades against his father, unexpectedly thrown into passages of third-person narrative--simply by substituting a name for a pronoun here, adding quotation marks there...
...asks the reader--Percy? Allison? It would be very easy for he author to clean up some of these passages--like Barrett's first-person tirades against his father, unexpectedly thrown into passages of third-person narrative--simply by substituting a name for a pronoun here, adding quotation marks there...
...asks the reader--Percy? Allison? It would be very easy for he author to clean up some of these passages--like Barrett's first-person tirades against his father, unexpectedly thrown into passages of third-person narrative--simply by substituting a name for a pronoun here, adding quotation marks there...
...growing popular support, Gierek suffered a major political blow when a sweeping purge that soon became known as the Sunday Massacre removed six of his 19-man ruling Politburo. The party leaders had gathered at a Central Committee meeting simply to discuss the strike. Instead, Gierek found himself thrown into a bitter confrontation with his party rivals. He clearly emerged the loser. Ousted were some of his closest colleagues, including Premier Edward Babiuch and Jan Szydlak, head of the government's official Central Council of Trade Unions...