Word: passed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Horner, who had eight catches for 93 yards and a touchdown Saturday, grabbed St. John's second toss at the Dartmouth 30, where he was knocked out of bounds with 9 seconds showing. Then Tom Beatrice snared the third St. John pass at the 25-yd. line and ran out of bounds at the Dartmouth 21. With five seconds in the game. Harvard coach Joe Restic elected to try a field goal--a38-yd. attempt into the swirling wind in the closed end of the stadium...
...Green Meanies approached, one of the lustiest and most stout of the pack stepped forward and said to Kob, "Keeper of the bridge, let us pass...
...with that, the immense knight drew his sword and sliced off Kob's head cleanly where the neck meets the shoulders. And the head rolled to the side as the hunchback flailed his arms, which the knight sliced away--one at a time. And so the Green Meanies could pass over the bridge...
...that for the leading literary figure in Japan, Abe's writing has a remarkably Western flavor. Except for place names and a few distinctly oriental metaphors ("his thoughts shrank like a piece of fat meat plunged into boiling water"), Secret Rendezvous. Abe's sixth and most recent book could pass, like his others, for a Western novel...
...associations in Letters, however, come too thick, and it's a matter of chance which one your brain happens to pick out at any moment. As sheaves of pages pass by, Barth concentrates these associations in several arbitrary subjects: the War of 1812, which somehow prefigures a Second American Revolution; the decline of the profession of letters; the Maryland shore, scene of most of the action; the waning of the Indian tribes; others too numerous to mention. Except for the fleeting pleasure of realizing Barth is up to something, these associations offer the attentive reader nothing but work...