Word: sacking
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...that Harvard had a chance to tie the Ivy title against Yale, and the biggest play of the game--Bob Baggott's fourth quarter sack of Bob Rizzo--only set up Mike Sullivan's touchdown run out of punt formation...
...self-esteem when brought mint tea and invited to inspect carpets and bolts of silk in a Moroccan bazaar. But the rotting garbage in the streets is probably more typical of the real East. And to queries about the nature of those mysterious blue crystals in the burlap sack, the reply, translated, will be: "Detergent...
...counterfeit turns out to be exactly what it should be: grossly indelicate, boozily funny, unstoppable as a belch or a rush of sack to the kidneys. To say that it goes on being boozy and indelicate too long is to say, no doubt, that it is Falstaffian. The author's conceit is that Falstaff is now in his 80s. Busily dictating his memoirs, he passes on to a series of horrified clerks his digestive uproars, his sexual fantasies about his pubescent niece and his rages at his cook Macbeth ("Macbeth has murdered sleep, and my digestion"). Falstaff acknowledges that...
...musician turns out to be John Klemmer, the album's called Barefoot Ballet and the devotee's cradling a bottle of lukewarm wine and curled up on a red plastic sit-sack. You've never seen any of them before but the music brightens the small hours...
What the hell is the matter with you Americans? Here is a man who has got Arabs talking with the Jews, capitalists with the two Communist powers, and now bitter blacks with uncompromising whites in South Africa. The man is amazing. Yet all you people want to do is sack him. However, when he becomes available, how about Kissinger for Secretary-General of the United Nations? It would add respect to that tarnished body...