Word: kangaroos
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...could have had a goal, too for his troubles. With the Big Red net empty at game's end, he and Joe Craigen streaked forward on a two-one-none...but Craigen kept the puck and banged it home. Probably a fine for Craigen in Harvard's kangaroo court this week, but Ferrari didn't complain...
...still keep readers asking "What next?" Especially Keneally, who can play it hot or cool, tragic or comic, without forgetting the basic tricks of the trade. Never show a stick of dynamite that does not go off in a later chapter. Don't discourse on a kangaroo's boxing ability if he isn't going to kick the stuffing out of someone later...
...egregious mistakes about what the creatures looked like. Owen believed, for example, that Iguanodon, a grazing beast some 30 ft. in length, was built something like a hippopotamus, with a small, sharp horn on its nose. Half a century later, scientists decided the creature was shaped more like a kangaroo and the horn was really a misplaced claw that belonged on its forefoot. Now they think it was probably four-footed after...
They tell me that back in '37, a troika ((a three-man kangaroo court common during the purges of the Stalinist terror)) could decide a person's fate. And now a troika is deciding the fate of entire nations...
...darkened movie theater showing fare expressly designed to stimulate sexual acts, are a legal no-no. For people whose livelihood depends on public image, committing such deeds where those individuals are likely to be recognized carries a heavier penalty, which, in Reubens' case, seems to be a kangaroo court, public hanging and quick burial on TV boot hill...