Word: awfulness
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...underboss. This was the ultimate insult. We were actually gonna kill him right in a crowded funeral parlor, but there was too much law outside. That night, it's time to leave, and Chuckie grabs Salvie by the neck and kisses him on the lips. Smaaack! I said, "Aw, if he doesn't know now, he'll never know." That was the kiss of death...
...from the goal and announces, "I bet $100 I can sink one from here." A stagehand snaps up the wager. Marsalis flexes his knees, rises up on his toes and sends the ball arcing through the misty night sky. Swish! Amid scattered applause and shouts of "Aw right!" from fellow musicians, a voice calls out, "Wynton, you are one competitive dude!" The young man grins. "No, I'm not competitive," he says in his soft-spoken New Orleans accent. "I just like to play...
...doesn't see much of that side. Oh, Watson beats his son every Sunday and throws a half-caste mistress off his land when she becomes inconvenient. But the narrative, which is told in 36 short chapters by ten locals, mostly mixes awe and dread, along with a certain aw-shucks accommodation. Outsize characters, Watson's workmen and neighbors seem to think, have their little crotchets...
...their parents. The principal got up and said, 'Note that I start at 8 o'clock, not one minute before or one minute after. At Regis we do things on time.' Well, my father said, loud enough to be heard ten rows in front and ten rows behind, 'Aw, s---!' I thought, that's it! I'm finished. They'll have my ass out of here in the morning." They...
...George Washington was there." A former Miss Bloomington, Minn., blew her chance to break into the big time when she sang the anthem before a Minnesota Twins game. By the time she got to the "land of the free," she was in the land of the hopelessly confused. "Aw, nuts," she muttered into the microphone, and gave...