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...southpaw lost Tony Carlucci on a 3-2 pitch after Allard missed a wind-blown foul fly, and back-to-back hits later, the Rams had a 3-0 lead and the ball game...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Barber's Curves Blank Crimson, 4-0 | 4/16/1981 | See Source »

...often, weak writing rules. Impossibilities abound, such as a scene where a wind-blown hat lures a girl to her doom, but somehow remains stationary overnight to provide a telltale clue. Blood Beach also tries to spoof know-it-all scientists and tight-fisted politicians, but is too lazy to drive its point home...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: Geritol Case | 2/4/1981 | See Source »

...Nogales, backed by charts and diagrams, he tells the cops how he once tracked a burglar along a concrete road by watching for traces of footprints in "little stringers" of wind-blown sand. Though he shares such knowledge happily, he has found that tracking and desert work require a patience that is disappearing from America. He has camped out for weeks at desert airstrips with his dog Baron. "It's hard to keep the younger guys staked out like that," he laments. "They're gung-ho at the start, but two trips out is about all they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Tracks in the Desert | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...sales and takes pride in being a bargain hunter. But time has become so precious that for the past few years she has bought her clothes?usually neatly tailored suits and blouses, often from Marks & Spencer?on twice-a-year bulk-buying sprees. Even the Queen sometimes appears slightly wind-blown in public, but Thatcher is invariably coifed and lacquered against the elements. She has already advised the staff at Downing Street that they "will have to understand that I must have an hour in my schedule once a week to have my hair done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tory Wind of Change | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

Earlier in the contest, the Crimson nine looked like they wouldn't need any late-inning heroics to win it. Starter McOsker had his roundhouse curveball in a groove, and the Jumbos managed just a wind-blown home run off him through the first half of the game...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Nine Stops Tufts, 9-7 | 4/25/1979 | See Source »

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