Word: hones
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aphorism insisted that the Battle of Waterloo had been won on the playing fields of Eton. The lessons learned on the playing field are among the most basic: the setting of goals and joining with others to achieve them; an understanding of and respect for rules; the persistence to hone ability into skill, prowess into perfection. In games, children learn that success is possible and that failure can be overcome. Championships may be won; when lost, wait till next year. In practicing such skills as fielding a grounder and hitting a tennis ball, young athletes develop work patterns and attitudes...
...both Wilhite and Stenhouse baseball is a consuming passion and basketball is an enjoyable hobby. Wilhite was tantalizingly close to going to USC to hone his baseball skills, but Columbia offered him the chance to play both sports...
...Crimson now has two weeks in which to hone its technique before facing Syracuse away on April 15. In New York they will be trying to pull their annual trick of turning history upside down--sending the Orangemen fleeing like the Orangemen sent James...
...Aldrich's thoroughgoing rascality has a point, McHale refuses to hone it. Despite Dwight David's all-American name, McHale has not turned out a parable about the national dream. Middle America comes east, all right, but the meeting produces much mutual loathing and no visible significance. Instead, McHale seems simply to have taken much joy in producing the worst imaginable main character and surrounding him with the worst imaginable supporting cast...
...Wenders' new thriller is frighteningly effective. Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper turn in the best performances of their careers as a dying Swiss picture framer and a psychologically-shattered American who helps manipulate the picture framer into murdering an upper-echelon Mafioso, and Wenders' sharp eye and dramatic sense hone the film to a remarkably fine edge...