Word: lone
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With 8:33 left in the second period, Dartmouth freshman forward Scott Fraser broke up Hughes' shutout. After the goal, one lone fan--who happened to be Dartmouth defensive tackle Mike O'Flynn--waved a sieve sign...
Landscape Ryder could handle -- though not for reasons Turner would have approved. It made fewer demands on particularity. "There was no detail to vex the eye," Ryder wrote of one view of a lone tree in a field near Yarmouth, Mass. And so "I squeezed out big chunks of pure, moist color and taking my palette knife, I laid on blue, green, white and brown in great sweeping strokes . . . I saw that it was good and clean and strong. I saw nature springing into life upon my dead canvas. It was better than nature . . . I raced around the fields like...
...decently, for an amateur. Though his prose sloshes with pomposity -- "reserved for my lone delectation" is a standard clunker -- his book does well because he sees what is admirable in the splendid anarchism of the great players. He tells the story, among many other good ones, of the late Jack Straus, who, while waiting in federal court to be tried on a tax charge, was touched by the plea of another defendant that a $35,000 judgment would put his family on the sidewalk. "It's okay, Your Honor," said Straus, "just stick it on my tab!" It is only...
...This is the best team we've had in my four years," said van Dykum, the squad's lone senior. "This would be a great way to end my senior year...
...then he struck. One lone frosh, standing up for tradition. Eight thousand fans watched him begin his journey from the near corner of the Harvard end zone. They watched him dash past a drummer into the middle of the Veritas logo. They watched him snatch the "VE" in stride and make a beeline for the far corner of the Dartmouth end zone. They watched him disappear from the stadium as the security officers stood transfixed, too bewildered to give chase...