Word: goner
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...Platoon's narration, in the form of Chris' letters to his grandmother, is often as stilted and redundant as silent-movie title cards. When a naive new boy shows Chris a photo of his sweetheart, you just know that, in the best '40s-movie fashion, the guy's a goner...
...wasn't ready for court. I am not a smart person by any means. They closed my welfare case because I had no children, which meant that I had no money, no electric money, food money. I got thrown out of my apartment. I would have been a goner if I hadn't been taken in by Vinnie's brother and wife. So I took care of their six kids while I was waiting for the court to give me back my own. I took those kids to school. I bathed them. The judge says I got to prove...
...washroom and slipped a bullet-proof vest under the same white safari suit he wore when he left three years earlier. "I'm O.K., I'm protected here," he said as he patted his torso. "But if they hit me in the head, I'm a goner...
...slightly does not remove the impact of the third tax cut or the military's insatiable appetite for tax dollars. Don't forget that when Ronald Reagan, playing the legendary halfback George Gipp, asked that a Notre Dame team win "one for the Gipper," he was a goner...
...lucky to be alive right now," Oberg said. "His car looks like an accordion. They [the doctors] told me that if he had not been in such good shape he might have been a goner." Oberg added. Bernal, who runs regularly, felt fit enough to leave the hospital and enter UHS on Tuesday...