Word: sheds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circulated petitions among the assemblage, brandished his cane at a policeman who took his picture. "I'm not afraid of little boys!" shouted Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, who was fired by ex-Premier Khrushchev for protesting "lack of freedom" in the Soviet Union. "I shed blood for this country...
...emotional arsonist who starts fires in others simply to watch them burn. Semple becomes his natural prey. Hunt constantly involves him in schoolyard beatings without ever fighting himself. He goads Semple into cramming a billiard ball into his mouth, dislocating his jaw. Finally Hunt taunts him into a shed where Hunt's own girl lies, ready to seduce him. Semple finds the confrontation so frightening that he loses all hold on rationality, murders the girl, and is committed as criminally insane...
...mostly in other people's beds. What she finds there is a variety of sexual activity ranging from earnest fornication through onanism, homosexuality, and-since these pursuits are so familiar to fiction nowadays-some rather esoteric variations. The denouement takes place at a masked ball, where the participants shed everything but their masks. And who should end up dancing together but Merry Houseman and her daddy...
...York City Borough of Queens, "where I had defenses," might help.' Cold comfort there. "Is that why you called, Harold?" bleats his Yiddisha Mama. "You thought your mother needed a little filth thrown in her face all the way from France?" More cheer is shed by a sexy sylph in a mauve postage-stamp bikini. Miss Janus, delectably played by Brenda Smiley, has a Proust-like remembrance of flings past and an impish vein of insecurity: "I wish I could get to the state where I truly believed my behind was beautiful...
This rosy state of the line does not mean Harvard can just walk over anyone: the Cornell and Dartmonth defenses are also far superior to the ones they had last season. But it does mean Zimmerman has fewer weak links and thus more alternatives to use. He won't shed any tears about the dearth of ball control as long as the scores run high, and that may continue for a long time...