Word: ripping
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...seemed to me, just as it usually seems to my kind, that society was simply trying to strip or rip off my shield, that it was willing to do so ruthlessly, that it didn't care about me personally, or the amount of humiliation or degradation it might inflict in the process. I stubbornly balked at being manipulated, regulated, or being compelled to conform blindly through fear or threat or punishment, however severe. Indeed, I came to question the validity of a society that appeared more concerned with imposing its will than in inspiring respect. There seemed...
...year-old Virginia boy castrated. Rushing to a little league soccer match aboard the back of his dad's cycle. Claudio lost his pecker as the bike narrowly avoided a collision with a truck. Somehow, the back of the truck caught against the boy's blue jeans, and rip! Underwear and all. The 18-month-old tragedy made headlines because of a miraculous epilogue. In May, a team of doctors cut off chunks of Claudio's stomach calf and foot and successfully constructed a new organ complete with erotic sensibility. Articles on Claudio pointed out what immense hope this medical...
...that fills the bizarre literary world of novelist John Irving. The author of the 1978 bestseller, The World According to Garp, Irving writes with a perpetual sense of impending doom--at any time some sort of garish literary vehicle similar to Claudio's fateful truck can roar by and rip away everything familiar and safe. In Garp, penises fly, ears get chomped, tongues are replaced with stitches, and death always looms. "In the world according to Garp," Irving explains, "an evening could be hilarious and the next morning could be murderous...
...minutes into the game. Princeton senior Rip Wilson bounced a shot off a defender's foot and past Harvard goalie Tim Pendergast. A minute and a half later, teammate Gerry Bocon connected on the first corner of his hat trick from in close Four minutes after that, Steve Delligatti fired an implausible shot from 20 yards with Rob Sherlock directly fronting him, but he made the score to give Princeton a 3-0 lead, and boom, boom, boom. Harvard lost its wind, never to recover...
After picking the Crimson program ("I said if I got the opportunity that's the place I would go") over Yale and a host of other Ivy League schools ("Yale was out of the question: I didn't want to stay in New Haven.") Fleming proceeded to rip apart opposing Ivy league defenses. Following as sporadic freshman year. Fleming hit stride during the 1979-80 campaign, averaging 19.6 points per game in League play (19.9 overall) and earning first-team all-Ivy honor. This year, in spite of an early season slump, Fleming has scored at an 18.2 ppg clip...