Word: galling
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...tale of easy triumph -or comfort to people headed for the hospital. The point of this impressively honest memoir is that surgeons learn by doing, and patients often suffer in the process. As Nolen tells it, trial and error is still the only way to develop the skill and gall that a first-rate surgeon requires...
...With only a few minutes gone in the game, halfback Norrie Harrower cleared a direct kick up to Phil Kydes who centered the gall to Charlie Thomas about 10 yards out from the goal. Thomas kicked the bounding ball into a Brown defender and then fired his own quick rebound into...
Golden emphasizes his desire. "You can take school half-seriously and foot-gall half-seriously," he said. "I take football very seriously...
...left a Milan orphanage at 17 to become a printer, built a publishing empire encompassing ten weekly magazines (20 million readers), became a film producer and sponsored more than 150 films by such leading directors as Michelangelo Antonioni (Red Desert) and Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita); of complications from gall bladder disease; in Milan...
...with any luck at all, the Crimson should win five games-a significant improvement over last year's record. A triumph over Cornell, not entirely out of the question, would make six, and a 6-3 record during a rebuilding year would be quite a satisfactory accomplishment. It may gall some alumni to lose to Dartmouth, Princeton and Yale again, but seeing the Crimson in the first division again is enough for right...