Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against him. As if that were not enough, he must also suffer the punishing consequences of a series of failed escape attempts. The movie's dialogue consists largely of grunts and ughs, to which sensible viewers may want to add a kind of choral effect of their own. Needless to say, the picture ends in a bloodbath that might startle Sam Peckinpah...
...singly, much less in combination. The two-handed backhand seems part of the tennis landscape now that Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert and Tracy Austin have made it respectable. But when Borg first came to public notice, no one had used the shot since Australian Vivian McGrath in the 1930s. Needless to say, Borg's method was considered idiosyncratic, a stylistic dead end. For that matter, topspin was viewed as the last refuge of Bobby Riggs trying to win a bet. The patient base-line game has rarely been seen since Jean-RenéLacoste was outfoxing stronger foes in the 1920s...
...compelled to restrict students to a provision of one gallon of wine per man. Despite that one prohibitive graduation, the tradition of imbibement was propagated, climaxing in the "Plum cake scandal" of 1693, when kill-joy President Mather outlawed the tainted pastries, deeming the custom "dishonourable to the Colledge." Needless to say, in spite of various fines imposed by Mather, the tradition survives in one form or another...
...much justice that the leaden hand of Government undermines the freedom and incentives that make capitalism so productive. Managers see themselves as Prometheus bound, unable to launch a new product or finance research into a tempting field without completing a fat book of federal forms and paying exorbitant, sometimes needless expenses. Complains Pennzoil Chairman J. Hugh Liedtke: "We sit here in management meetings deciding on projects that may cost hundreds of millions of dollars. But we do not know what the Government regulations will be for pricing, importing, entitlements, allocations...
...being forced into calling bingo numbers for two hours and said, "My son (he's at Medical School) will love you. You could date him (he's in Boston). He just broke up with this girl (she wasn't Jewish)." She forced a piece of paper into my hand. Needless to say, I was very flattered. Months later, doing my laundry, I found a piece of paper with a phone number and mystifying Hebrew characters...