Word: bulldogged
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...black woman who supports her heroin-addicted brother, operates a shipyard crane. She, Polly and three or four other sisters in honest toil are being vaguely menaced by a Eurasian man, who writes them inscrutable mash notes. Also spying on them, flickeringly, is a peculiar fellow with a white bulldog. While presenting these enigmatic events, Hannah's ordinarily vivid prose seems flattened toward objectivity. Scenery is telescoped: "Aero-scan of birds, all kinds of seabirds, sea, Puget Sound with boat life, wharfs, seals, howling noisy seabirds again, here and there a helicopter." Background music is summoned: "Beethoven comes on with...
...We’re going to use him there,” Walsh said. “He’s got some bulldog in him. There are certain things about a closer, and he doesn’t fear hitters. He just goes after people. He’s going to come in there and throw strikes...
...Walsh says. “There are a lot of guys that aren’t freshmen that that’s a tough situation for. But he’s a kid that’s got ice water running through his veins. He’s a bulldog. And I feel good about putting guys like that on the mound...
Owens kept the Crimson on the scoreboard early in the game, answering the Bulldogs’ initial 3-0 lead with three goals from free position. Owens lined up against a weak spot in the Bulldog defense and discovered the formula for drawing fouls...
...would make some witty, clever, or snide remark to the best of my fun-making ability,” says Bulldog Greg Lipstein...