Word: limpness
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Just two days after the band marched under the new arrangement--a rather limp display against Army on October 1--Crimson Key tour guides began to work under a similar, unprecedented system. Traditionally independent, the guides came under the reign of the admissions office, which wanted more control over the focus of tours given to visitors. L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, said he made the move because a survey of admitted high school seniors who snubbed Harvard indicated that the tour did not concentrate enough on undergraduate life...
...warden made a slight motion with his left hand, and a rifle volley shattered the silence. Four bullets tore into Gilmore's heart, twisting his body, which then turned limp. Blood slowly poured out, staining the bullet-pocked chair. Two minutes later, at 8:07 a.m. on Jan. 17, Gary Gilmore was declared dead. He was the first prisoner to be executed in the U.S. since...
...explain who is doing what to whom, and why, in the four-team limp-off is a mystery even to the participants. When questioned, players squint into the middle distance, managers scuff the artificial turf, and fans in Winnie's, a watering hole on Crescent Street in Montreal, stare mournfully into their Molson's beer. Says St. Louis Manager Whitey Herzog: "It's the craziest race I've ever seen...
Substantial parts of DelCorso's Gallery are set in Viet Nam and Lebanon; the novel is not only about war but also about the relationship between morals and aesthetics. Nicholas DelCorso, the proletarian hero with a limp caused by an old wound, acts as if the good and the beautiful are inseparable. He is an award-winning news photographer who, like a Hemingway bullfighter, prefers to work in close. The moment of truth occurs in the darkroom when the faces of he anguished and the dead resolve Beneath the surface of the developing solution...
...third pumped at least eight bullets into the body of a man dressed in a blue Philippine Airlines maintenance worker's shirt and jeans. With other soldiers outside firing rifles into the air, the reporters dived for cover, but not before seeing Aquino's limp body being loaded into the van, which then sped off. In all, less than 30 seconds had elapsed...