Word: spining
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...history,* and Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, the bill's floor manager, was mad. "The whole procedure is disgusting," he cried. "All that is being accomplished here is a display of adult delinquency. Any intransigent minority can run the Senate if a majority stands around with jelly for a spine...
...just as well be a phallic sublimation of Jocelin's repressed yearnings for the red-haired wife of a cathedral worker. Even the warming presence of an angel who, Jocelin believes, comes to watch over him as he prays is explained away as the effect on his spine of some un speakable organic disease...
...never before done a Broadway show. Furthermore his wife Frances is the daughter of Fanny Brice and Nicky Arnstein. So there were book problems right away. The actual Nicky was considered unacceptable as a leading man. He was a shiftless con man with a column of mercury for a spine, a criminal record, and a cavalier attitude toward Fanny's devotion and fidelity...
...vacation's play made it clear that Harvard or any other E.I.T.L. team with thoughts of challenging Princeton has its work cut out for it. The Tigers dumped Miami in a weekend match 5-4, ending the Hurricanes' 137-match winning streak and sending a shiver down the spine of every Eastern coach...
...small sailing craft and old men playing pinochle in firehouses were the people who stitched up the big holes in the world that were made by men like me." > Moral deformity carries its own stigmata: "He was a tall man with an astonishing and somehow elegant curvature of the spine, formed by an enlarged lower abdomen, which he carried in a stately and contented way, as if it contained money and securities...