Word: fraught
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tackling practice tried tempers. Tackling has been called the most valued weapon of a player's arma ment. In games, tackling is the swift answer to an enemy chal lenge; fraught with an emotional energy that softens, psychologically the bumps. In practice, it is a dull business hammering with the shoulders the piston hammers of another man's knees...
...story of the Baptist-Prophet, is undoubtedly fraught with emotionalism, and the intensity of feeling, the suffering and anticipation which permeate the facts of his life, and the lives of his followers, were in some measure caught by Sudermann. The Repertory version catches even less of that spirit. Melo-drama vies with the ridiculous, approaching farce, where only dignity and religious feeling were intended. The mania for making the unreal appear real, for putting Hamlet in plus fours, can amuse but hardly impress. Perhaps there were wise-cracking merchants in Israel but we can't believe they had Irish-Mayfair...
...until it is time for them to appear in bars and brothels. Their Presbyterian mother dies young and their worldy-wise Kentucky step-mother is taken up and pushed aside as brusquely by Author Cohen as by aging, bitter, impotent Daniel. A final tour de force, significant perhaps but fraught with almighty coincidence, is the ascendancy of "the alien conqueror," Abe Ullman, Daniel's scheming merchandiser, who captures the big store from the children and is in turn captured by a onetime countergirl whom Freddie Pardway seduced. There are power and sweep to Sweepings (the title comes from...
...settle the disposition of his dust. The whole matter is trivial, but for those who are inclined to be dreamy and sentimental--which includes the whole world for moments at a time this fame and fortune of a braggard, which transcends our centuries, has a glory and scope fraught with opportunity for golden musing. Idle it is, but pleasant...
...treatment. Still another is the respective provinces of adjudication and administration; how to achieve a proper balance between treatment of individual cases as types of generalized classes of cases, governed by broad principles, and treatment of each particular case as unique. Still another is preventive justice something no less fraught with possibilities than preventive medicine. Still another is the limits of effective legal action; a study of what we may hope to do through law and legal machinery...