Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Golding saves his full verbal resources for the descriptive sequences, such as the riot when the workers discover they will have to finish the shaky tower, and the reverberating interior of the church in a storm. But here again Golding's metaphors tend to defeat his purpose. They fail in the long descriptions due to overabundance (in two pages of storm description one sees cosmic wildcats, black crows, sails, masts, stone shoulders, Satan, and clouds of devils). And often they fail to evoke anything because they are simply overblown ("the sunrays wheeled about him;" "the spark and shatter...
...ninth. When No. 1 took the eighth, they stood a better than even chance on the ninth, but as it turned out, their victory was only accidental: the favorite tripped, causing a four-horse pile-up that left the way clear for Historic Value to jog unchallenged to the finish line...
Even at 5-12 odds, it looked like the bet of the hockey season. The Toronto Maple Leafs, winners of the Stanley Cup for two years in a row, were shooting for three against the Detroit Red Wings. The Red Wings had all they could do just to finish fourth in the six-team National Hockey League. Their goalie, Terry Sawchuk, had 1) a pinched nerve, 2) a sick wife, 3) six kids and 4) a $100,000 liability suit over an automobile accident to contend with. And their star, Wingman Gordie Howe, was obviously slowing down. He would never...
Croasdale matched his shot put finish with a second place in the hammer throw. Hampered by a slippery throwing circle, he managed only a sub-par 168 ft. toes. Northeastern's Bill Corsetti won it with a 187 ft. heave...
Helped by a substantial tailwind, the varsity heavies never gave Princeton a chance ends set a course record with their time of 6:00.5. Had the river not been so choppy at the finish, they might have had even a faster time...