Word: copious
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...Paint Your Wagon suffers less from a shortage of women than from a shortage of wit, from imagining that copious research is a substitute for bright conversation. This defect is an unfortunate handicap for a show that is otherwise a pleasant enough addition to the Broadway scene...
When Stoughton scored ten runs in the top of the fourth on seven hits and four errors by the Grads, both managers made copious substitutions, and it was due to this that the score of the game reached unusual proportions. Art Davis, Stoughton pitcher, struck out five, but also walked the same number...
...small artificial beach. Wherever there's a sunny beach there are women, and at this particular man-made strand boys and girls play about 'til all hours. The lake is only four or five feet deep for quite a way out, and this provided an opportunity for the most copious necking I have ever seen in the water. Or for that matter, outside of the water...
...readily that the incessant questioning, the unremitting pressure, the malnutrition, the copious stimulants, the screaming, the shouting, the dead silence, the cold and all the other hardships, are designed to force one to say not the truth, but what they call the truth...
Auriol is a proficient angler and fancies himself a proficient hunter. At the big official hunt parties given every year on the presidential country estate of Rambouillet, M. and Mme. Auriol attain a high pitch of activity. Michèle Auriol scurries about directing the beaters to drive copious supplies of game in the direction of favored guests. Vincent with his gun swivels wildly to & fro. Those who know his aim and love their lives, duck. He good-naturedly contradicts any suggestion that somebody else brought down the bird at which he thought he aimed...