Word: gallingly
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...before a grand jury about cop-bribing during Mayor Bill O'Dwyer's regime, he exploded the biggest New York corruption scandal since the days of Jimmie Walker. Then, after a total of 77 blue-coats had been named as defendants or coconspirators, Gross managed, with consummate gall, to spring them...
...Tigers got off to an early advantage at 3:46 of the first period when Bill Gall slipped a 30-foot screen shot into the Crimson cage. Two minutes later, Pete Fairfax alertly grabbed a loose puck in the center zone and coasted in untouched, to register the second point...
...lice left him in peace was spent in tussles with the army's standing operating procedure. Sometimes a man lost to S.O.P.-as when Wheeler showed up with sore eyes, and was rigorously dosed before the entire regiment with "three ounces and a half of the bitter gall Epsom salts, and two hours knapsack drill in double quick time [to] open my back door...
...Optimist. Edwin Arlington Robinson was the only sizable poet the U.S. had between Emily Dickinson and the poetic renaissance around World War I sparked by Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters. Robinson found the poetic landscape "flowing with milk and water." He injected the gall & wormwood of realism. In general, he celebrated the individual, not by tracking the footprints of great men, but by tracing the soul-prints of weak ones. The Miniver Cheevys, the Richard Corys, the fumblers, the failures, the souses were not freaks to him but symbols of man's suffering...
Corning--who, like the little girl with the Carl, can be "very, very good"--stymied many Princeton breakaways. But fortune opposed him, and the Tigers got the eventual winning point midway in the first period, when Bill Gall took a pass from his brother Pete and sent a 20-foot angle shot through a maze of legs and into the Crimson cage...