Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"After playing hopscotch, Elsa and I liked to pick Japanese beetles off the rosebuds in the yard. They crawled on our fingers like a symbol of our half-formed feelings...."
When Ulysses was published in 1922, it showed Joyce's matchless command of the English language and his finger on the tragicomic pulse of human life. If that life sometimes seemed tinged with an indefinable futility, it was because Joyce tried to construct a universe without God. In such...
In the Square, a riot was almost touched off by news-hungry students who bought out the supplementary supply in record time. A crowd in South Station tore the New York papers off the stands before they could be properly assembled, often leaving with only half of the thick Sunday...
One man, who waited an hour and a half, only to be pushed aside by the struggling crowd, explained, "I wanted to get the funnies for my wife." Another, more successful, man rushed off with his prize without waiting for the change from his $5 bill.
At that, the Crimson almost escaped unscathed. Georgescu got off a miserable dribbler that just did carom off the post into the goal. Forbush, who played magnificently under pressure, had no chance for the ball. The varsity could not penetrate the Tiger defenses in the remaining 7:15.