Word: hating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CANADIAN AUTHOR Margaret Atwood about the critical contention most frequently leveled at her five novels--that they "hate men"--and she will acrew her aristocratic features into a grimace, primly fold her blue-veined hands, and lunch sing-song into what is clearly an oft-repeated litany...
Danny was concerned that the auction would not go well. "There are too many farm sales and money is tight," he said. "I hate this, but I think I'll be happier not worrying about it." Looking back, he regrets putting so much of his life into the farm, forgoing any vacations. "I've never taken Frieda any place for over a day," he says. "Now we can't buy a car and our 1974 Ford is worn...
Blessing gives his characters a pungent flavor. Old John Law (Ray Fry), a legendary pitcher who is being honored, is a laconic curmudgeon who seems to hate baseball now and to have loathed the fans in his days of glory. Add on: the whisky-swigging, pot-bellied manager (Frederic Major), the clubhouse clown (William McNulty), the Hispanic outsider Jesus Luna (Dierk Toporzysek) and the multi millionaire superstar (Mel Johnson...
...sure, Schaap has to tell the usual Steinbrenner stories, the ones the New York Post and Daily News have subsisted on since the Cleveland multimillionaire bought the squad in 1973. There's the derigeur stuff about the owner's hate-hate relationship with two-time manager Billy Martin, and the latest dirt on what Steinbrenner considers his "father-son" relationship with once and future Yankee manager Gene Michael, whom he canned last fall but soon rehired for the 1983 season. Schaap doesn't forget to mention the owner's interference with his managers' decisions, or his proclivity for spending ungodly...
Student reaction to the recent snow fall was mixed Elizabeth Zachos '84 expressed her displeasure with the current weather conditions by saying yesterday "I hate the snow," while Henrique Martinez '84 disagreed yesterday, commenting. "This is very nice--a change of the ordinary...