Word: aorist
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Even a confirmed believer in the cocktail party theory of weekends might find the experience worthwhile, and even exciting. He would learn that the art of building a work-bench is as difficult to master as the conjugation of the aorist, although much more fun, and that a discussion of race discrimination will really keep him sitting on the edge of his chair when talking to a boy who has been trying to find a job in a Cambridge defense industry, and whose ability he has learned to respect after a day of hard work together. And our skeptic might...
...class a few weeks before graduation. As to which honor he has spent most of his time pursuing during the preceding four years, that is perhaps another story. Even if he did spent more time chasing the fleet football than what Mr. Dooley once called "the more fleet aorist", he had some theoretical respect for that part of man which grows above the neck. Now, apparently, quite otherwise. The pleasant, rasp of the golden key as it slides along the watch chain seems a pale delight compared to the costasies of throwing, the victorious hat over the goal...
...twist an aorist...
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