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...Soldiers Field, the Varsity soccer eleven will take to the Business School Field in an effort in win its first game of the current season at the expense of an as yet untested Tufts outfit. Somewhat disappointed by the opener last Saturday ending in a 5 to 5 tic. Coach MacDonald has spent the week working up team play and expects his squad, made up almost entirely of veterans of former seasons, to make a good showing...
...Spain is a menace we [will support] everything we can do under the Charter." Even sober-sided Andrei Gromyko grinned. By the time Hodgson was through, the Australian delegate had enough votes to back the principle of a Council subcommittee investigation to decide whether Spanish Fascism is a domes tic matter or a threat to world peace...
...discussion. He listened with smug approval to his own high-pitched voice, glanced around beamingly for the laudatory nods and bobs of his four advisers. The more satisfied he seemed with his role as apologist for Russia and cross-examiner of Iran, the more pronounced became his facial tic...
Democratic Tic. The Bavarian revolution that succeeded World War I had its own puzzles. Schoenberner was not one of the literati who suddenly felt a new and urgent need to join the proletariat. Nor did he have much respect for the Democratic Party, whose platform, he thought, matched the names of two of its prominent leaders, Rindskopf and Kalbskopf (Oxhead and Calfshead). The general confusion was epitomized by a Munich professor who was called before a huge audience to give the real lowdown on the problems of German reconstruction. Owing to a nervous tic, this professor always broke into...
...bayonet wounds, and the agonized collapse of a woman who has been raped; and, in the faces of those physically untouched, wounds of the soul no less piteous to see. It shows the starved American prisoners and the American dead, and, in the immediate aftermath of combat, the uncontrollable tic in the face of one of the liberators...