Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laps on cold November afternoons, and got in an occasional varsity scrimmage, and played in the handful of informally scheduled J.V. games, and probably didn't do too much dreaming about serving as the varsity captain...
...overlooks the injuries of Wayne Moore and Craig Beling, as well as the inspiring play of Ralph Polillio, Rich Horner, Matt Granger, Marco Coric and Bob Woolway. Tack on eight points in the two losses and shelve the remedial officiating in the Cornell and Princeton games, and you've got an undefeated football team...
...Really you would be better off if those democrats who got elected in the backwash of Watergate were not; then American politics would have some clarity, not politics of personality but politics of principle," Fraser added...
Nabokov's novel indicates that Herman can't possibly turn life into art, because life is messy and disordered, and it's got to intrude on his perfect vision--a fitting reason for "despair." Nabokov conveys the idea that Herman's plump wife is having an affair with her puerile cousin without the narrator even being aware of it. And when Herman violently proclaims to have found his "perfect double," a tramp named Felix whom he encounters on a path (in a glass funhouse in a movie), we have our nagging doubts that what Herman tells us he sees really...
Hamilton says a woman who seldom makes sexism an issue has more effect when she does make an objection. "I got called the 'prettiest little girl in our class' by a classmate at a job-hunting party. I pointed out to him later that that wasn't a compliment--and he won't do it again. If he had been used to my objecting to his vocabulary, he wouldn't have taken me seriously...