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...spot, sophomore Deepak Abraham, who was playing with an injury, grabbed the first game from Marcus Cowie. But Abraham dropped the next three to lose 3-1 to the two-time defending national champion...
...younger brother of our No. 1, Deepak Abraham, will play in the top half of the lineup, as will Dylan Patterson, an incoming freshman from Brooklyn," Wyant said...
Heimert quickly discovered his affinity for American history, but even as he completed his senior thesis on Abraham Lincoln he had not yet decided to enter the world of academia...
...words testify, testimony and testicle all come from the Latin testis, for testicles. When Roman men gave testimony, they held their testicles in their hand, for they regarded them as sacred. This custom is mentioned in the Old Testament. In the King James translation, the passage reads, "And Abraham said: 'unto his eldest servant of his house... Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: And I will make thee swear...'" In the future when Hollywood makes a biblical or Roman epic, it might include a scene of a man testifying in the authentic manner...a reel grabber...
...mother took out the carp and handed me a knife. I put it on the cutting board in the kitchen. The gills moved up and down, making the kind of sound your mouth makes upon opening when it is very dry. Its eyes, surely those of Isaac, son of Abraham, looked flat, round, unflinching, uncomprehending, accusing. I backed down. My mother took the knife and stabbed the fish in the lower back. She had obviously never killed a fish before either, for she would have known to club, not stab, it. I couldn't tell if the resulting "crack...