Word: ashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Pacote is still swaying slightly at bullfight time, his mouth and his spirit are ash-dry. He watches young Tano Ruiz work deftly with the first bull, hears the crowd shouting in approval. Let Tano thrill them. He, Pacote, will "coast all the way," retire to a good safe life of raising bulls in Cordoba. His own first bull is a fiasco. Pacote trips on his cape before making a single pass. As he staggers to his feet, the bull deals him a glancing blow that knocks him down and out. As the doctor works feverishly to bring...
...last novel. "She is a little too tall and too thin," he noted. "I have seen her between the Bastille and the Porte St. Denis, and in the steamboat from Honfleur to Havre; her head is the perfection of Norman beauty; a superb high forehead, blond cendré [ash-blond] hair, an admirable and faultless little nose, blue eyes not quite big enough, chin narrow but a little too long; her face is a perfect oval and one can only take exception to her mouth, which has somewhat the shape and the turned-down corners of a pike...
...convertible, with the gold initials on the door, and she shudderingly recalls that the only time the speedometer dipped below 100 m.p.h. was when he rounded a curve. On the way home, Desi hit a bump and, as Lucille tells it, a fender flew off. He simply flicked the ash from his Cuban cigarillo and sped...
Cornell--Bow, John Ash; 2, Michael Bryson; 3, Donald Irving; 4, David Cox; 5, Peter Raymond; 6, Clinton Ayres; 7, Walter Herman; Stroke, Peter Sparhawk; Cox, Arthur Wilder...
...foray was directed against Harvard, Wellesley, M.I.T. Radcliffe, and Lesley. Pledges were told to gather "anything that would be useful to the "house" including beer mugs, ash-trays, banners, lamps, and bar utensils. The directive continued "The more you get this week the easier it will be on you next week...