Word: gruntings
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...stood looking at each other: occasionally Jim Abbott would grunt, I would snarl. Then with lightning speed. I grabbed him and threw him to the ground. I was about to pin him. but decided to let the match continue. After all, I was only a CRIMSON sports-type: I had to think about the morale of the wrestling team...
...strip against an opponent. Larrys hostility does become strikingly apparent. Every one of his movements is part of a larger plan intended to intimidate his opponent. He doesn't just lunge. He charges; he doesn't just grunt, he screams. He can deliver a light ?? that ?? grazes the opponent's ?? he can be more vicious and leave a well that may rake a coup of days to heal...
...this bad. We only have a few sad minutes, all we can do is accept and live with reality." He also told his mother that "it would happen and not to be sad." He said that he would be brought home by someone who loved him-"a grunt, Mom, a grunt like...
...around him, "Now I want you to get up and walk around." They did. A minute or so later, he said, "Now start to make noises at each other. Make a noise and make it at someone." What happened was very eerie to watch; for the actors began to grunt at each other, and then, as though high on the action around them to physically contact each other, bumping, then shoving, and in one case, actually fighting. Suddenly, big waves of energy were flooding the room where minutes before there had been none...
...editor of the school paper, the Chatterbox, to which he contributed countless drawings and a flood of articles and light verse, not the least of which was a poem called "Child's Question": "O, is it true/ A word with Q/ The usual U/ Does lack?/ I grunt and strain, /But, no, in vain, /My weary brain/ Iraq." He also earned straight A's. His mother, leafing through an anthology of prizewinning short stories calculated that more prizewinning authors had gone to Harvard than any where else, and thereupon dispatched John to Cambridge, where he was given...