Word: sinews
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...crowd yelled: "Let the Champ try!" "The Champ," the fourth rider, tried. He gave the now lolling head a tremendous jerk. But bone and sinew held...
...plan's prime point was that Germany should pay first of all with the bone & sinew of German industry-machines, stocks, tools, practically everything except factory buildings. Collecting in this way, the victors would simultaneously recover some of their war losses and weaken Germany's potential for future...
...Total defeat of the Wehrmacht, "for over a century ... the sinew of German pride." This operation, now accomplished, lays a psychological basis for a cure...
...dancing is commonplace, the book childish; and the central character (Alfred Drake, late of Oklahoma!), a happy-go-lucky figure condemned in Puritan times to wander the roads from generation to generation, lacks the tang and sinew of a Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan. What should have been an exciting show remains, at best, a pleasant song recital...
...finals were a race between two completely dark horses. Outsped, outreached, outbrawned by Western Kentucky, West Virginia trailed at half-time 32-24, stayed behind for 35 of the 40 minutes, though never by more than eight points. But where they were short on sinew the Mountaineers more than made up with heart. With the score at 45-all and 20 seconds left to play, little Hicks sank the winning foul shot. As the timekeeper's buzzer went off, Hamilton was fouled and sank another...