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At any rate, Indians somehow won out--inspired, supposedly, by a rough-and-tumble, crowd-pleasing red man whose exciting playing career was unfortunately cut short by a series of scrapes, off-field misadventures, and episodes with the bottle.
But I didn't really hurt myself--one always picks up a few bumps and scrapes around the house.
Paul Gillmor, R.-Ohio, the classic Ripon Republican venerates Ronald Reagan (whose scrapes with "gypsy moth" Eastern Republican moderates during the 1980s are apparently forgotten) but tends to part company with the party on social issues such as abortion.