Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PAPER LION, by George Plimpton. As a nervous newcomer to the squad, Plimpton persuaded members of the Detroit Lions football team to talk seriously and precisely about their roles, their skills and how a Sunday's campaign is plotted. The result is by far the best book to date on pro football...
PAPER LION, by George Plimpton. As a nervous newcomer to the squad, Plimpton persuaded members of the Detroit Lions football team to talk seriously and precisely about their positions, their skills and how a Sunday's campaign is plotted. The result is the best book to date on pro football...
Harvard started slowly and B.U. started fast, and the disparity resulted in a Terrier goal at 1:55. Serge Boily shot from outside the blue line, and nervous goalie Fitzsimmons turned the bomb in with his stick...
...this sounds rather far-fetched if we forget how completely we have assimilated into our nervous systems conventions that seemed outrageous when new. When D.W. Griffith invented the close-up, the good people of 1915 demanded their money back: they hadn't paid to see random fragments of anatomy! Likewise, the first cuts completely disoriented audience accustomed to fadeouts...
Needed Propping. Though Jadid & Co. despise Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser for his "softness" and seek by their export of terror to take over his leadership, Syria has nonetheless been forced to cooperate with him. But even Egypt, long the revolutionary center of the Middle East, feels nervous about Damascus' rabid adventurism. In order to prevent a major war from growing out of Syria's madness, Nasser signed a mutual defense pact with Syria last November that demands consultation before any major attack on another country. The fact is that Syria's military is too weak...