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The game is not worth the ammunition it would cost.
He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.
After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.
Politics is an accelerating game.
The long-range objective of habitat management is to make it fully productive so as to support fish and game populations to contribute to the need for public use and enjoyment.
And due to modern resource-use and game management practices, there is still game to shoot, even with the ever-expanding encroachment on land and water.
Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.
There is much to be said for a college that, while happily attuned to the sophisticated Ivies, still gives its students a chance to get up early in the morning and drive along back roads where a glimpse of small game, deer, or even bear is not uncommon.
But there is one small episode that a few New York fans who happened to sit in the cheap seats for one World's Series game in 1926 like best to recall.
`` Kelsey is very doubtful for the Rice game '', Meek said.
-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.
it must play a game in which there never is a winner.
It is almost axiomatic that golfers who dominate the game of golf for any period of time attack their shots with a vehemence bordering on violence.
The effective tit for tat strategy is one game theoretic example.
This song is also used in Ellen Raskin's The westing game.
The game Orphan Feast on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim website is loosely based on A Modest Proposal.
Asteroids is a video arcade game released in November 1979 by Atari Inc.
The object of the game is to shoot and destroy asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers ' counter-fire.
Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.
The game is over when the player has lost all of his / her lives.
The maximum possible score in this game is 99, 990 points, after which it " rolls over " back to zero.
The Asteroids arcade machine is a vector game.
** Every infinite game in which is a Borel subset of Baire space is determined.

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However, purely negative play is rarely a winning strategy: successful players ( in all versions other than golf croquet ) will use all four balls to set up a break for themselves, rather than simply making the game as difficult as possible for their opponents.
Significant variants of the game, such as where the starting position differs from standard or the objective is to have the fewest pieces one's color at the end, are sometimes — but rarely — played.
Demand for the ability to create larger game files led Graham Nelson to specify versions 7 and 8 of the Z-machine, though version 7 is very rarely used.
Produced at a time when most games rarely took up more than one side of a floppy, Time Zone is believed to be one of if not the very first game of this magnitude ever released for home computer systems.
Whichever team scores first -- either through a field goal or through a touchdown, or far more rarely a safety -- wins the game and the game ends.
The advantages of the dealer arise in many ways, but mainly from the temptations held out by the rules of the game to induce adventurous players to increase their stakes on certain desperate chances, which rarely turn up, and which in the long run told largely in favour of the bank.
Today, the two teams do not even play each other and Morgan's home football games rarely draw as many as 10, 000 fans with the exception of the school's homecoming game.
Because of the fast pace at which the game is played, bughouse games are rarely recorded
Occasionally in the game setting, the windmill is performed via alley-oop but is rarely seen in offense-rebound putback dunks due to the airtime required.
Circe is rarely played as a variant game ( when it is, it is usually combined with progressive chess ), but very often employed in composed fairy chess problems.
Pork is not halal and not consumed, while lamb, goat and game are rarely consumed for reasons of taste and availability.
Adults were rarely given anything since nearly every title was aimed at younger audiences, so this is one of the few cases where programmers were trying to appeal to an older audience ... if you're a fan of a true RPG, this is the game for you, you'll be thoroughly impressed and absorbed.
Typical meats used for a Sunday roast are beef, chicken, lamb or pork, although seasonally duck, goose, gammon, turkey or ( rarely ) other game birds may be used .< ref >
After that he rarely entered a game before the seventh inning for the rest of his career.
Bluffing is an act of deception that is rarely seen as immoral when it takes place in the context of a game, such as poker, where this kind of deception is consented to in advance by the players.
Whilst an 1860 Warminster Fives Court still exists at Warminster School, the game is rarely played in the area any more and the fine details of the game are probably lost.
Blowguns were very rarely used by these tribes as anti-personnel weapons, but primarily to hunt small game such as monkeys.
Although the term Plachutta is confined to the world of chess problems, not being used in a wider chess context, the underlying Plachutta pattern does occasionally ( though rarely ) appear in an actual game.
With a sold-out crowd of 18, 000 fans cheering him on, Arce had to dig deep and work hard to pull past the once-beaten Lookmahanak, who turned out to be a very game southpaw and rarely took a step back.
He also immersed himself in Canada's culture and came to particularly love hockey, rarely missing a game played by the Ottawa Senators.
Although Hobbs had rarely opened the batting, when Hayward captained Surrey in their opening game of the season — the regular, amateur Surrey captain was absent — he selected Hobbs and used him as an opening batsman.
During his first three seasons, Fulks averaged 23. 9 points per game at a time when, before the advent of the shot-clock, teams rarely scored over 70 points in a game.

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