Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Munro, however, is not overly discouraged. "I expect the line to score more this year even though we have lost our two top scorers, Jim Shue and Tom Bernheim. Our defense," he added, "is our strongest point, but on the other hand, the halfbacks may be our weak link...
...surreal landscape of fantasy, a kind of Poe-like, gadget-haunted region of Weir. Thus a soda-fountain stool violently revolves into a "tall mushroom," a newly screwed-in electric bulb lights up with "the hideous instancy of a dragon's egg hatching in one's bare hand." It is the strength of Nabokov's imagination that makes the characters in these stories live. It is the weakness of his characters that they can live only in their imaginations...
...this underworld, shy, sickly, dowdy and dull Princess Anne-later Good Queen Anne, the last of the Stuart monarchs-groped for a hand to guide her. She turned to one of her childhood friends, Sarah Jennings, and found that her hand was dexterous, hard and tipped with eagle's claws...
...Sarah's reply to Somerset has gone down in history. "If I were young and handsome as I was," she wrote, "instead of old and faded as I am, and you could lay the empire of the world at my feet, you should never have the heart and hand that once belonged to John, Duke of Marlborough...
...defensive work was impressive, the squad's offense often looked sadly unpolished. Too often the quarterback collided with the back to whom he was trying to hand off the ball, the runners seemed hesitant and unsure of their course, the line didn't work together in opening holes...