Word: butte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...errant man of God has long been the butt of barroom jokes, a straying sheep of American novels (The Scarlet Letter, Elmer Gantry) and even of TV movies. Much like fictional characters, the gospel telecasters in the current imbroglio emerged during the week as role players in their own real-life soap opera. Among the participants and events...
...knew how to beat either of them," Sertich said, "I wouldn't be sitting on my butt right now--I'd have been in the tournament...
...when, on her deathbed, she "sees" her absent daughter, is actually an improvement. In three major roles, however, the new ensemble falls far short: Terrence Mann sings Javert impeccably, but in an effort to humanize him, loses his obsessive core; Leo Burmester as the grasping innkeeper Thenardier and Jennifer Butt as his wife are neither scary nor funny, depriving the show of its keenest image of ignobility while also flattening much needed comic romps...
...mean or vicious. But you take a look at how you're perceived, and obviously you don't want that perception." Friends agree that since his marriage to Elizabeth, he has mellowed, replacing the hatchet with a stiletto. As often as not these days, he makes himself the butt of his own jokes. Reflecting on the 1976 campaign, he quips, "My assignment was to go for the jugular...
...many penalties by a team can be costly. With Michigan Tech down by a goal in the dying seconds of a CCHA playoff game some years ago, an opposing player butt-ended the Tech student manager, drawing a five-minute major. Tech scored on the power play to send the game into overtime, then won in overtime--on the same five-minute major...