Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With junior corner Derek Yankoff nearly draped around him, Morey extended his arms and nearly made a spectacular catch. But the second Morey touched the ball, Yankoff punished him for it, tossing him to the ground for an incomplete pass...
...Foley and Scott M. Brown, as the first and second messengers, deliver their hefty chunks of script with appeal. Foley's description of the first sortie on Mt. Cithaeron is proof of a working knowledge of the rhetorical value of adynata (women suckling wolves, milk spurting from the ground, and other such impossibilities...
...very first scene, for instance, introduces us to the famous three witches of Macbeth--who in Umabatha have become Sangomas, or Zulu diviner-women. rattling bones across the ground to tell the future and chanting maniacal melodies as they dance around their fire, the three Sangomas retain their function as eerie, ambiguous messengers of the world beyond, even as they are transformed into traditional icons of Zulu myth...
Officials who work in administrative offices within the building said that they called 911 when one of their employees--a Harvard student on the scene at the same time as Cohen--reported seeing a badly injured student on the ground in front of the building...
...Christian Identity which allows this discussion to take place," he says. "Jews as the spawn of Satan and black people as mud people also allows them a certain common ground...