Word: headed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While this year's team means business on the field, they manage to fool around off it. Before the Dartmouth game, the team had a "cripple breakfast party", to which the players came dressed in bandages. Tricia Welch showed up with her entire head bandaged, which greatly impeded her ability to eat the scrambled eggs, while Julie Brynteson arrived with two compression pads positioned so that the laughter led to no end. Kerry Bryan arrived with a blond, curly wig and a sweatshirt that had "Coach Bob" written on the front and Stefi Baum donned a black wig and painted...
...bounds off 1-95, onto a potholed road past clusters of identical houses. The driver cranes his head side-long, "You're almost there. Just beyond this cemetery a bit." The graveyard flashes by. "Here...
Francis M. Roach, head of the Community Disorders Division of the Boston Police Department, said the police are "being aggressive" in their efforts to quell racial violence, and that solving the problem requires a total commitment from the community...
...Pritchett's characters are articulate about their- predicaments. Zuilmah Bittell in Tea with Mrs. Bittell is an affluent widow whose wits have been slowed by gentility. With a head "clouded by kindness and manners and a pride in her relics," she befriends a shop clerk whose companion attempts to plunder her expensive furnishings. That the pair are probably homosexuals escapes Mrs. Bittell; that embarrassment moves her to brave action provides the reader with an unexpected insight into motivation: "She had often, in her quiet way, thought of what she would do if someone attacked her. She had always planned...
...even upbraided Charles de Gaulle, when the general testily said that the French fleet would like to attack the British as well as the Germans. Nor was Winston spared her temper. Once after a battle over his spendthrift habits, she hurled a dish of spinach at his head. She missed...