Word: illing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't have to do any work I never studied seriously in my life, and I ended up ranking third in my senior class. It's a good Catholic school, but compared to Groton, Choate or a good public high school, it's run of the mill. I was ill-prepared, I didn't know how to study when I came here. Besides, I was the first All-American at the school, and they took care of me, you know, they let things slide they shouldn't have let slide...
...Lardner's coverage of the White Sox for the Chicago Tribune was much more than sports-writing. The spectators held just as much fascination for him, and it was from covering baseball that Ring, we are told, discovered the archetypal American: "fast-talking, egocentric, semiliterate, innocent, gullible and ill-informed, a character later known as the 'wisecracker' or the 'wise boob.'" Lardner, however, did not imply scorn or look condescendingly on the people he wrote about and in one of his first clips, with which Yardley begins the book, we can see how much Lardner loved the game...
Veterinarian George Beatty operates a small animal hospital on a 1¼-acre plot in the Chicago suburb of Palatine, Ill. This year his real estate taxes jumped from $4,200 to $14,000 to help pay for a new school. "I don't mind paying taxes if they are reasonable," he moans, "but this is ridiculous...
...home are compared with those of a dwelling just down the street. A number of communities tax houses on the basis of their original value. A grand old home might have lower taxes than a brand new house of lesser quality. Some districts, such as Cook County, Ill., and Fulton County, Ga., are attempting to eliminate the imbalance by taxing all homes at their current "fair market value," but then taxes explode and devastate longtime residents living on fixed incomes. Says Ren Wicks, 65, who, as a result of a $4,000 annual property tax bite, is now struggling...
...BEST SPORTS MOVIE I ever saw was Pride of the Yankees, the 1942 tribute to Lou Gehrig featuring Gary Cooper as the ill-fated Yankee great. It was hokey and soapy, almost completely unrelated to the realities of major league sports, but it was still a lot of fun. That, in the long run, has to be the main criterion for judging sports movies. With a very few exceptions, these films don't aim at bringing any important theme to an audience. In an era of incredibly mindless films, sports movies remain in the fore of anti-intellectualism. The people...