Word: hunched
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...have many books about love. You have books about the technique of sex, the crap books. Technique--that's interesting. No feeling--the technique of sex. But even so, the pretense of books about sex. About work, nothing. And so, in a sense, Andre had a hunch. He just knew. It's hardly been written about. It seems to have caught, in that sense, something people have felt but haven't articulated...
...flowers, because the land exhales the tolerance and beauty of what endures. Little rain falls, the earth is riddled with rocks that men have been heaving into meandering low walls for generations; the olive trees are strong and timeless but can't escape the battering winds and sigh and hunch towards the ground. Still there are cypress that tower slender in clans of two or three, and there is sweet honey in the hives that range the mountains. Greek people honor the simplicity of their land--they build white houses with pure geometric lines and they accept the bread...
...coupons at the pump, he would have to sign his name and write his license-plate number on each one, so that they could not readily be reused. The coupons would be good for only 60 days, so that speculators would be discouraged from hoarding large quantities on the hunch that coupon values would rise...
...bookies don't; their job never goes beyond quoting the line and handling the cash. Despite their practical, day-to-day importance, they're only middlemen in an art. The important distinction is that you bet with your bookie; it's your money, your research, your hunch. He's just doing...
...HORDES THAT fill the sticky, smok Astor theater to see Jimi Plays Berkeley are rock concert crowds. They shout to friends in the balcony and stomp their feet impatiently. And when the house lights dim--after the usual delay peculiar to rock concerts--matches flare and shoulders hunch throughout the theater. Excited, they sit back to let the Jimi Hendrix Experience wash over them...