Word: plucks
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...told Drake-lake, who told Goose-loose, who told Gander-lander, who told Turkey-lurkey. And on their way to tell the King, they met Fox-lox, who offered to take them to the Palace. Instead, he ate them all up. Moral: Use Your Head, Else a Fox May Pluck Your Feathers...
...gulped, audibly, regrettably, and made for fresh air. The mist was a sweet but persistent spit now, and we gathered up our pluck and struck off on Fountain Ave. As we passed Primrose Path, Ash Ave., Indian Ridge, and a few other bustling thoroughfares, we remembered the recent experience there of an anarchic friend, told us in the cheerful atmosphere of the Adams House Dining Hall...
Character v. Indulgence. Mawkish as some of them were, the oldtime texts emphasized morality and character. "How little of that appears in the readers of today!" Even great heroes become "bloodless, namby-pamby, without vitality, pluck or distinguished ideas." The words "love, loyalty, honesty" rarely appear because the experts regard them as too abstract. "Sin is out . . . but (and quite logically) so is virtue. The children depicted in modern readers live in an uncharted ethical miasma of being 'happy,' engaging in do-it-yourself pursuits . . . with nice fathers and mothers in the background, who display no virtues beyond...
...making good on his assiduous saber-rattling or accepting a humiliating backdown. "Will there be war over Suez?" was the question on British minds last week as the Prime Minister stepped to the dispatch box in the House of Commons and faced an aroused Labor Party, vociferously vowing to pluck him bodily from the brink...
...they succeeded in producing a thudding drum effect (by shoving pieces of rubber between the strings) and used it in their version of Ravel's Bolero. Their latest effort is even weirder. The tunes in Soundproof (Greensleeves, Baia, Lover) contain effects that resemble giant rubber bands being plucked, the click of a tack hammer, xylophones and harpsichords, and a sound like a Hawaiian guitar quivering on the breeze. To play these tricks, Pianists Ferrante and Teicher not only mute the strings with wads of paper, bits of wood and metal bars, but also pluck the strings while holding down...