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...public-address announcer booms, "And now . . . heeerrre's Lefty!" Pandemonium again breaks loose, the band strikes up Hail to the Chief and out shuffles Charles Grice ("Lefty") Driesell, the loose, lanky (6ft. 4-in.) Maryland basketball coach. He is wearing a $250 double-knit suit and the "aw-shucks" grin of a plowboy at a tea dance, and when he casually flashes the awaited V-for-victory sign, the cheers resound all the louder. Lefty and his legions are ready for another game in their drive to become the nation's No. 1 college basketball team...
...Rosewall's drinking is confined to an occasional glass of beer. Stan Smith's most colorful expression is "Aw, shoot." Rod Laver does not even smoke. The tennis world has, in fact, sorely lacked an outstanding male player with personality to match since the heyday of dashing, temperamental Pancho Gonzales. Now there is a promising candidate for Pancho's old role. He is Breezy-Mannered Bachelor Bob Lutz, who last week became the first American in ten years to win the U.S. Professional Tennis Championship...
Then, wringing his large rough hands, Bremer said: "I used to pound it into my kids, 'You've got to find yourself, you've got to find yourself.' 'Aw, forget it,' Artie'd say. He never paid any attention to that. Yeah, I spanked my boys. Roger got his cracks, and Artie got his cracks too. He must have been very sick. None of us knew it. But he must have been a very sick person." Draining half his beer, William Bremer concluded: "I just hope to God that no parents have...
...ruddy-faced, be-spectacled Congressman is not noted for his antiwar efforts. When asked about his stand on Vietnam, he replied, "Aw, I don't want to go into that...
...suggest that Mr. Krauss get his head out of his ass. It's okay to be pseudo-intellectual, but about the Dead? Bespeaking the "underbelly of the acid experience"? "A cathartic ooze slid over the hall." Aw...