Word: spearing
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...drunk--and what few drunks we have are usually that way when they come in here--there's no need to lay a finger on him," says Jack Spear, manager of the Wursthaus. "Tact. That's the way to handle him. Place him on a pedestal with a few words, and make him think that you're his servant. Pretty soon he'll be outside...
...Lord, I give him into Thy hand, as a captain putteth a sword into the hand of his sovereign, wherewith to lay waste his enemies. May he be a two-edged weapon in Thy hand and a spear coming out of Thy mouth, to destroy, and overcome, and pass over; and may the enemies of Thy Church fall down before him, and be as dung to fat the land...
Biggest hit was a piece Goossens had brought with him, "a piece ... for Australia to be proud of." Concertgoers got a kick out of the program notes of John Antill's ballet suite Corroboree (aborigine for get-together): "Much usage of boomerang, spear and fire sticks." But its savage and original rhythms and percussive effects excited them to an ovation when it was over, though a member of the orchestra said, "From within, it sounds only like noise...
...knee-length stockings. He was not prepared for the reporters and photographers who found him aboard the liner Mauretania, on a trip that is taking him around the world. The newsmen persuaded him to take off his jacket and western shirt, and pose for an hour with the hardwood spear, stone ax and Bible that he had brought with...
...federal government's finger in education." His other point was that such bans, once begun, might be extended to "potentially subversive" students. Bureaucratic decisions "as to who is pure and who is not pure" would, he cried, "poison the wells of academic freedom . . . Our descendants will spear our graves if we go that...