Word: grunted
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...annual poll of professional scouts to determine the athletes who will be most sought after in the N.F.L. draft has turned up an abundance of intimidating talent. The way the pros saw the season, the best players were linemen and linebackers-big rough performers schooled in the grunt-and-groan tradition that Lombardi refined to savage perfection at Green...
...right places. Now, at 5 ft. 6 in. and 119 Ibs., she is hitting with more oomph, punctuating each shot with an audible grunt that "means I'm putting everything into it." Her game as a rule is still anchored at the baseline. But now, capitalizing on her two-fisted backhand and a deadly drop shot, she is taking more chances. "Until this year," she says, "I've always waited and let the other person make mistakes. Now I'm trying for the good shot. I'm loosening up a little bit out there...
...exploiting Kung Fu, one of the Chinese martial arts of man-to-man combat. Instead of six-shooters, the actors use their hands, feet and heads to show who is the fastest draw in the East. Besides kicking, jumping and batting their heads together, they like to yell and grunt...
LIKE MOST Americans who were drafted in 1968, O'Brien did not emigrate to Canada or submit to a jail term. And even when he knew he was headed for Vietnam as a grunt, he did not desert. He formulated precise plans for an escape to Sweden, but as he started to leave, he found that the futility of a lonely protest and the vagueness of the future as an exile clouded any clear moral course It would hurt his parents more, he decided, to receive a letter from him explaining his desertion than a telegram announcing his death...
...BRIEN WROTE his personal version of the war ostensibly to present a grunt's-eye-view of Vietnam. "The book isn't very pretentious," he admitted in an interview. "There's very little politics in it, for example. But I don't think the footsoldier has been properly exposed to the media. All those books on World War II -- I just don't think they accurately describe...