Word: bod
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impoverished adoptive father and certainly not his real one, who views an Oxford education as "sending his only son into the everlasting hellfire." Oscar's financial salvation comes when a well-to-do classmate looking for company knocks on his door by accident and then remarks, "I say, Odd Bod, do you like a flutter?" Slowly, Oscar realizes that he is being invited to bet on horses at Epsom Downs. He would indeed like a flutter: "He knew that God would give him money at the races...
Ginsberg: An enormous amount. Many word sociologists like McClure and Pound say that when words get separated from direct conversation when they are just on the page without the physical component of sound, then the head gets cut off from the bod. And people will tend to go into generalizations and hyper-abstraction of the language. Words have to refer to something real, and when we begin to take words as having eternal abstract essence without any physical reference, the human content is removed from the language. As Pound points out, when the words in poetry get cut off from...
...Cincinnati Royals in 1969, Cousy actually came back for a few N.B.A. minutes, merely as the pragmatist cooperating with the merchandisers "trying to jazz up business with old No. 14 on the bench." Sitting beside him, actually inside him, was the sentimentalist. "I never wanted to expose the old bod' before that 35-and-over group, to spoil the illusion, destroy the myth, look like what you are, a tired...
...second airline disaster at Barajas in ten days. Late last month an Avianca 747 crashed on final approach, killing 181 people. As rescue workers once again converged on the airport last week to gather burned and mutilated bod ies, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia cut short a private visit...
...imagine the trouble I have finding a hot tub, never mind one of those matching jogging outfits with the little slits up the thigh. But I've been hanging in here to prove that I'm more than a pretty face and a gorgeous bod. I signed up to do an off-Broadway play called Extremities. It's all about this cute young thing (me) who is attacked by this rapist whom I fight off and capture. It's sort of like an Angels episode only heavier, and you have to remember all these lines...