Word: carpe
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...tell those rookies, 'Watch out for strange love,' " the man informed a reporter on the baseball field. "Those gals -it's a mighty powerful lure when you're away from home-almost as strong as doughballs is to a carp. And I tell pitchers, 'Just watch the man's knees,' like a bullfighter watches the knees of a bull. He can tell what the bull's gonna do next." The tangled syntax sounded almost like Casey Stengel winding up for one of his all-out assaults on sports writers...
...Live Carp. Perhaps feeling that Christmas is especially welcome in haunted houses, Czechoslovaks are preparing for it eagerly this year. The Christ-child market, set up on a hill overlooking Prague, was teeming last week with shoppers who munched walnuts while wandering through the gift stalls. Near by, laughing children rode a carrousel set up under a towering Christmas tree. Housewives were already shopping for the traditional carp that will be kept alive in a tub until it is served up, garnished with an apple in its mouth, at the Christmas meal. In Prague, the theater season is in full...
...nettled by the fact that she was hustled off to air-raid shelters up to six times a day because of the approach of U.S. warplanes. Still, some good resulted from the raids of the "air pirates." In one provincial town, for example, "you eat a fresh-caught carp under a red and white nylon canopy" that had been fashioned from a parachute from a shot-down U.S. warplane...
...pump-function as efficiently as they once did. The muscles have degenerated into blancmange. If, in an emergency, the demand for air rises abruptly from the idling requirement of six to eight quarts a minute to 100 quarts or more, the maw gulps like that of a beached carp. The heart throbs about two to three times its customary rate, pumping blood through pipes thickened by sedimentary deposits and grown inelastic with...
...vision of Arden and the court that the good people over to Adams House are retailing these evenings is funny, fluid, and frequently elegant. Only a malcontent, wearier of world and stage than any Jaques, could carp very long on its one major failing: sometimes one can hardly see the Forest from the treat...