Word: girding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most powerful and moving drama, it is because he has found in sport his purest metaphor for the war of existence. The characters are a semi-pro English north country rugby team. Six days of the week, they are peaceable, nondescript employees somewhere. On the seventh day, they gird up their loins for gory combat. The changing room is where they come and go from their catchpenny Armageddon. In Act I, the men perform their initiation rites, strip down, loosen muscles, get into their uniforms. In Act II, they come off the field of combat, boy-toy soldiers, some broken...
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME James E. Allen Jr., LL.D., former U.S. Commissioner of Education. Dr. Allen's trumpet, anything but uncertain, may grate on certain ears, but he is forcing us more rapidly to gird for battle...
...Monday's a big day of classes down here at Penn." Furlong explained last night by telephone, "and besides, we don't enjoy making fools of ourselves any more than the next guy. We're gird we stayed in Philadelphia...
...whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like...