Word: pal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bursting with the juice of sanctity, and in Christ she found the ideal outlet for her holy passion. She reveled in his ascetic good looks, his impossible demands, his gentlemanly reticence. For Therese, God was the perfect man -- an amalgam of loving husband, righteous father, adorable son, good-time pal, indefatigable lover -- and she made herself the ultimate acolyte, surrendering to her heart's crush. Throwing over reverence for schoolgirl rapture, Therese dared to love Jesus to pieces...
...Sorry, pal," he said. "That kind of money wouldn't even pay for what my dog throws up." Comedy I don't need, not when I'm on White House business. I hung up and called another contractor...
King knows all our secret terrors. His writing is crudely, squalidly effective, but affecting all the same. Witness his description of the narrator's pal finding the first stories he has written...
Sincerely, Your Pen Pal, Derek...
...Skinny, no-talent stupid Hoboken bastard," she replied. Whap! She may be the only soul, living or dead, who comes out of Kitty Kelley's gritty biography of Frank Sinatra looking wholesome. That includes two U.S. Presidents, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, who cheapened their office by pal-ling around with Sinatra, the noted entertainer, bully and bar fighter who had another treasured friend in former Chicago Mafia Don Sam Giancana...