Word: deader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Barnaby reported that cold courts and a new, deader ball made both the team and singles matches short and somewhat unexciting. It was impossible to play shots off the back wall, since the rock-like balls made them drop short...
...soft-thinker. An appeaser. A Munich-seeker. A dove. A better-red-than-deader. An ill-concealed unilateralist...
...longer spoken. The value of this enterprise is unquestioned, but it is, after all, a preliminary exercise. Once a text has been purified and explicated, then it should be read, as a work of art, not merely an antiquarian construct, or a repository of ancient ideas. Latin is no deader than any other language that is written down; all literature is unchanging, but it dies when it is only studied and not read...