Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lookout, Vag lifted his eyes above the forest to the sky-line of distant peaks, in the high back--country. Here was the grandest sight of all. Against a violet, cloudless sky they reared in mighty heaps--some smooth and rolling, others leaping up in jagged swoops to abrupt pin-points. Their naked reds and greys were broken by blue-white patches of glaciers, slowly slipping down their inaccessible ravines. Vag could imagine the icy wind currents which ever-lastingly moaned along down these ravines...
Shadow to Shakespeare. Shoemaker to Shaw-all in one season-might be a whole career for most men, but for Welles it is only Springboard to Success. Nor does he want the Mercury to pin all its faith on the classics: he pines to do a real mystery, a real farce, a British pantomime, a fast revue, a Mozart opera. He has shown in Heartbreak House, with its careful, elegant sets by John Koenig, that the sceneryless stage of Julius Caesar and The Cradle Will Rock was not the fetish of a flash in the Pantheon, but simply a well...
...that they stubbed toes, barked shins, broke bones, chewed fingers raw, lifted hot plates off stoves - all without complaint. Even when the tender Achilles tendon (just above the heel) "is squeezed these children make no protest and show no sign of pain," reported the doctors. When touched with a pin they can feel the difference between the point and the head. And they can distinguish slight changes in temperature. The doctors concluded that the children "do not have analgesia or loss of any type of sensibility. They are merely indifferent to pain...
...succession. Aware that something momentous was happening, excited crowds began to jam behind his alley, but Bowler Blazek refused to be ruffled. Again he rolled a solid pocket smash. Taking his stance for his last and crucial shot, Mike Blazek just perceptibly faltered. His ball crossed the head pin for a "Brooklyn"' hit.* The No. 5 pin wobbled, teetered, finally fell. The crowd yelled. Mike Blazek had done what only four bowlers in the 38-year history of the American Bowling Congress had been able to do-he had rolled a perfect game...
...Bowling vernacular for a ball that curves too far across the alley, hits the head pin on the wrong side...