Word: clippinger
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Writing about life is the main thing that Cheever and Lee, whose short stories have been widely published, have in common. But there are also similarities in the way they live. Lee lives and writes at his home outside Croton, N.Y., only a few miles from Cheever's home...
The sado-masochistic mehod is a remnant of the do-it-yourself craze. The masochist uses small earrings with a spring which can be adjusted to vary the amount of pressure on the ear. By clipping on these earrings and adjusting the springs, the masochist can pierce her own ears...
But nobody makes fun of Bob Hayes any more. Outdoors in St. Louis last June, he ran the 100-yd. dash in 9.1 sec., clipping .1 sec. off Frank Budd's world record. Indoors in New York three weeks ago, he sprinted 60 yds. in 5.9 sec. for still...
Each sect has its own "reforms" from time to time and may talk of "unity," but that is like clipping a few whiskers off the sectarian tiger and leaving the temper and the claws of the tiger intact.
Merrill ran to the Harvard three, and while a clipping penalty returned the ball to the Harvard 31, the Crimson was about finished. Rapp, Egloff, and Mercein moved the ball and the Eli linemen moved Harvard men easily. Egloff scored on another one yard plunge and Yale had a commanding...