Word: heeling
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...althogether more hip-looking, we thought, than the next students gathered around him, Mr. Mailer was as generous with his conversation as anyone could demand. He held away over the worshipful without pause, punctuating 5th Avenue prep-schoolese with occasional puffings of his torso and rockings on his heel. A man who writes like a good whore smiling form the hip should be a good talker. Mr. Mailer is, and was Friday--at least, we learned, for a while. He did not, in fact, dine at all, but kept his post by the bar, answering the honest and ridiculous questions...
More formalized political language characterizes the other rewrites of hard rock songs on the PLP-LP. "High-Heel Sneakers" becomes "Get Out Your Red Flag Workers." "Governor Sargent's Racist Cutbacks Blues," sung to the tune of "Memphis," does feature some good lines...
...overhauled their creaky, 82-year-old state constitution. That laborious, 28,000-word document had been written-or more precisely, foisted upon the people -largely by mining interests, who hobbled the processes of government while exempting their own properties from taxation. But it was not until 1970 that the heel-dragging legislature, under pressure from reform-minded citizens, called for a new charter. Appropriately, members of that legislature, as well as all other elected Montana officials, were not invited to participate actively. This was to be a people's crusade...
...thought I'd experienced all the sports injuries you could have, but I've never felt anything like this." Bok said moments later. "The heel cord is usually hard but this feels like a soft jelly mass...
When the funeral services were held on Wednesday at St. Paul's Church, across from Adams House, over 400 people gathered from all over the country. "Everyone who was there felt like a heel," senior Vince McGugan said. "He had spent his life giving, and he never took anything in return, except friendship. No one felt that they had measured up to this...