Word: fleetingness
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At one point, a fleeting smile enlivened the face of a woman juror. Titters rippled through the courtroom when Charles Colson, an imprisoned former Nixon aide, was heard telling Convicted Watergate Burglar E. Howard Hunt not to get too specific about why he wanted hush money. "This is a serious...
The offensive unit breaks from the huddle and lines up in formation. A small fleeting back takes the pitchout and races around the end, breaks from the clutches of one tackler, cuts back across the field with mercurial strides and finally blazes down the opposite sideline eluding all pursuit to...
And yet you must wonder how long Stoeckel can keep up with this tenuous tie to the pigskin. How he can wait out the endless winter months in search of a fleeting spot on a 32-man roster. But until you see him cheering as chalkboard dream unfolds into a...
His fleeting contact with Shura, the young woman apparently uprooted and travelling aimlessly, with whom he falls in love, is his first deep emotional involvement. Her sense of the hopelessness of their situation, perhaps of their entire country, is contrasted with his seeming self-confidence in a poignant way.
Is there any way out of the dilemma? Intimations of immortality still infuse your soul, and the whiff of greatness is almost as strong as the smell of print in Samuelson. But, on the other hand, you're not willing to sacrifice the pleasures necessary if you want to climb...