Word: loping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...self-seeking - not merely be cause they were naturally ambitious, but because ambition was demanded by the conventions. Perhaps this is what he meant to convey to the lady who, on seeing him devour a huge meal, remarked : "You seem to have a very good appetite, Mr. Trol lope!" "None at all, madam," he replied, "but, thank God, I am very greedy...
Zany Clark, of the sudden grrrr, the steady leer, the carousel-horse lope, is cast as a numbers racketeer hiding out from the FBI in Mexico. Pursuit of that fine fiction drives him into some startling new disguises. As a strolling musician he flutes and frolics; as a bucktoothed Indian squaw (see cut) he joins in a happy warble, Count Your Blessings...
Companion volumes by the same authors list Tibetan syllables according to phonetic values (English alphabetical order), Tibetan verbs, commonplace chater for travelers. But Gould & Richardson lope that their students, will not be unmoved by Tibetan's poetic quality, claim hat the language challenges Chinese in its imagery. The name, for example, of one of he most glorious Himalayan pinnacles, Canchenjanga, third highest in the world, means "The Five Storehouses of the Great Snow...
...Hanover, N.H., where he retired so that he could lope through its wooded hills, he put a "Private" sign on his door in the Dartmouth College Field House. He ate such unorthodox foods as fried scallops before going out for a two-mile jaunt. He made friends with a local Swedish-speaking minister, told a visiting newshawk that he liked the minister "because he can't put what I say into the Bible...
...Ruddy, cigar-chewing Frank Knox seldom gets time for golf, at which he is a better-than-average dub. His substitute: harder work in his 15-minute morning round of setting-up exercises. His routine as he approaches 70: arm thrashings, a four-minute lope around suite...