Word: pinnings
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...ended in a crushing Egyptian defeat, and army officers grumbled that the fault lay with Farouk's corrupt courtiers who, they claimed, had got huge gains by supplying the army with shells that wouldn't fire and grenades that went off as soon as the pin was removed...
...care if these people vote, but all this marching is just silly," one man declared. "They're acting like the whole thing is a circus. Those northern kids just want something to write home about." One man who wore a Rotary pin had once lived in Cambridge, and we exchanged reminiscences...
...scene, Kennedy drops the medal that he is about to pin on Alan Shepard, the first astronaut. As worried aides scramble to retrieve it, Kennedy tells Shepard with mock solemnity that "this medal has gone from the ground up." That quip, of course, loses something in writing. And yet, it is more revealing than most of the narration, which never advances beyond the observation that Kennedy was "an uncommon man" who "built his program in an uncommon manner...
...tractor shed on the lefthand side of the fairway. Then try the Upside Down Shot, by reversing a No. 7 iron and swinging lefthanded. Then there is the Hanging Lie for those happy times when the ball nestles on the far lip of a trap; back to the pin, you scoop up the ball with a wedge, and flip it over your head onto the green. After that there's the Kneeling Shot. "For any distance from 180 yds. to 230 yds.," writes Hahn, "this shot is amazingly simple. On two occasions I have rimmed the cup from...
...focus attention on the themes and meanings imbedded in the script itself: exactly what Oedipus' words are at the climactic moment is not so important as the atmosphere in which they occur, which has brought them about. Personally, I think blood-red is appropriate. The "words," after all, which pin-point the climax of the play are, and I quote, "O! O!" As the play-wright knows, and the actor must understand, these words are the closest language can come to pure gesture--to that impulse which precedes actual speech. If the attempt had been made to communicate them...