Word: grounded
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...minutes into the second half the Crimson struck again. Collins picked up the ball on the right side of the field and attempted a shot that was deflected into the air, several feet above all the players. Waiting on the ground, however, was sophomore Kate Nagle, who controlled the deflection and put it into the net, increasing the lead...
...National Press Club in Washington,Radcliffe officials agree that discussion stalledbecause the tour's ground rules were unclear...
...title for this collection Opened Ground, seems to imply a new mode for or at least perspective on his work. The phrase "opened ground" appears several times in the anthology, but one of the most important appearances of the phrase comes at the end of "Act of Union," a poem from his most widely-read collection, North...
That leaves you raw, like opened ground, again...
With this allusion to his own work, perhaps Heaney is implying that after these thirty years of "digging," some ground has finally been opened, some introspective conclusion reached; yet the fact that this land may be "stretchmarked" and "raw," sexually mauled and completely violated, seems to imply that there is something inherently wrong, even obscene in this final revelation. Does this mean that the newly and rarely anthologized works contained in Opened Ground are detrimental to the essential oeuvre of Heaney's work, previously established within a mythical, symbolic, and imagistic framework? Hardly. Rather, Heaney is saying with his title...