Word: ace
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...example, the Ancient Egyptians thought death was like life, only more conceptual--so they wrapped their former pharoahs in ace bandages and secreted them in vast, angular postmodern structures built of stone. Moslems, on the other hand, have traditionally thought of the afterlife as a paradise of inlaid patios and plashing fountains, in which the True Believer could sit forever, dandling plump breasted houris and rosy bottomed boys upon his knees...
Having just returned from the dead, however, I must tell you that both theories are false, as is every other afterlife ever conceived by the mind of man. Death does not involve angels, or houris, or ace bandages (well, perhaps ace bandages--more on this later). Nor does it have anything to do with trumpets, balm of Gilead, Nirvana, or Kama Sutra. Death is lying on the unyielding floor of the Dunster House dining hall with an itchy nose, worrying about being stepped...
Representatives from higher education organizations fought hard to insert provisions which would protect their members. The two largest organizations, the American Council on Education (ACE), an umbrella group of almost all colleges and universities in the nation, and the AAU, lobbied especially hard, but to no avail--The bill passed...
Khoury came back to win the next three games, but Engle's service game was on target, as he put the match away with an ace...
...Harvard ace Lora Rowning faced 25 batters in seven innings, while throwing only 14 balls in a 72-pitch effort. She recorded seven strikeouts and didn't walk a batter until the final inning...