Word: jock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...season she selects the most promising prospect from her local minor-league team, the Durham (N.C.) Bulls, and instructs him in the arts of body language and the hanging curve. For some women it might be merely fast food for an avaricious appetite, but Annie is more than a jock groupie; she is an inspired coach on a couch...
...widow could get a better break on the insurance. That was okay and only proper because somehow the system itself had long ago said Skol! and Quite right! to the military cycle of Flying & Drinking and Drinking & Driving, as if there were no other way. Every young fighter jock knew the feeling of getting two or three hours' sleep and then waking up at 5:30 a.m. and having a few cups of coffee, a few cigarettes, and then carting his poor quivering liver out to the field for another day of flying. There were those who arrived not merely...
...this deliriously erotic movie has been adapted. The author set out to investigate the murder, never officially solved, of Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, Kenya's most notorious womanizer (played in the film by a subtly predatory Charles Dance). Fox concluded that the murderer was Sir John Henry ("Jock") Delves Broughton (Joss Ackland), a man phlegmatically devoted to squandering a fortune. Broughton's motive was jealousy. It seems that Diana, his beautiful young wife (Greta Scacchi, who projects a movie rarity, authentic sensuality), had married him mostly to hurry him along through the rest of his capital...
Athletes on campus feel insulted by the plan--and rightfully so. The plan demonstrates an overeagerness to believe in the jock stereotype. Pfister and Leverett House Master John E. Dowling '57, whose committee drafted the plan, forget that athletes prossess backgrounds and interests as diverse as any other undergraduate...
...Kirkland resident who is also an honors major and a veteran of varsity athletics at Harvard, I take offense at "dumb jock" slurs and despise that single-faceted stereotype of the house. (That some Kirkland residents project this image is not my concern here...