Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to his minute by minute account of the perceptions, tensions negotiations, and rhetoric on all sides at Attica Wicker presents his autobiography. It serves as a perfect corollats to the grim recital of events and speeches. When he needs to express the observers and inmates in tense fears of a police assault for instance, he tells a story from his childhood. Sitting on his front porch one hot summer evening, he felt an eerie tingle in his backbone, a rasping ominous sound that grew and grabbed his ears and shrieked Wicker was petrified with fear even after...
...perfect type of game for Bolduc's line; the referees called only six penalties all evening, three for each team. So Haley and Carr were reunited with long lost linemate Bolduc and the trio took over, accounting for six of the ten goals...
...crystal rock gazing. Providence choked with a 5-2 lead last Tuesday in Burlington before a bonkers crowd (ruining what would have been a perfect record) so today's predictions start with...
Coach Bill Cleary's icemen have thus far collected the most wins ever by a Crimson squad, completed Harvard's first perfect Ivy League season since 1957, and cemented an untarnished home-ice record with twelve wins at Watson Rink. They stand 22-3 overall, 20-1 in ECAC Division 1, and 12-0 in the Ivies...
...Kinbote, only not as well: Golf, gold, good, gods, nods, nous, gnus, anus, Amos. "Eight strokes with some cheating and a one putt." It is as if Updike has been suppressing all this game-playing for years as self-indulgent and inappropriate, and now he has discovered the perfect way out--he can pin it on Marshfield in the name of character development...