Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seine southeast of Paris. Recently a three-judge court in nearby Melun ruled that the Trognons could not bestow their name on their three-year-old foster son Philippe. The court did not object to the couple but only to their surname, which means stump or butt end. A name like that, said Chief Judge Maurice Rousseau, would be "un handicap" that would make poor Philippe "a butt of jokes" for the rest of his life...
...last time, after the death of John Masefield in 1967. But the British press is already kicking names around. Most of the names don't seem to be overjoyed at the thought of the honor, which carries a yearly stipend of $182, plus $70 "in lieu of a butt of sack." Says Poet Stephen Spender, 63: "I do not want to do anything that would make me more hated by other writers than I already am." However, he had a helpful suggestion: "What we really want from a poet laureate is high camp. W.H. Auden is superbly qualified." From...
...thanks to our engineer..." I am that engineer. I was the butt of a lot of jokes made by Ned Martin and Curt Gowdy...
...style but vision There is something hallucinatory about the richness of Kandinsky's stock of inner images. Of his way of seeing, he wrote that "everything 'dead' trembled Not only the stars, moon, woods, flowers of which the poets sing, but also a cigarette butt lying in the ashtray, a patient white trouser button looking up from a puddle in the street, a submissive bit of bark that an ant drags through the high grass in its strong jaws to uncertain but important destinations. Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which...
...hands while his legs slash through the air in roundhouse kicks (pontapes) or straight jabs (pisadas). Tripping is a favorite tactic; so is the flying dropkick (voo de morsego) that norteamericano wrestlers love. Cartwheels are often used. One of the deadliest blows is the cabecada, a flying head butt to the solar plexus that, if properly delivered, can be fatal...