Word: splitter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gary Bosnic failed to break the ice for Harvard when he shanked a tough 44-yd. field goal attempt on the following play. Bos did break the ice with 1:55 to go in the half, though, capping a 53-yd, drive with an upright-splitter from 30 yards...
...wife, "She couldn't get Johann Strauss to waltz"--comes out, "She couldn't get Johann Strauss to waltz." That means, I suppose, that she couldn't get Johann Bach to waltz, either. Moreover, any self-respecting mystery buff can tell you that a "mashie-niblick," that jolly skull-splitter, is a five-iron; Bloomfield ludicrously brandishes a driver. All this may sound like nit-picking, but these errors are a fraction of those actually committed, and they all add up to a general impression of carelessness...
...Neil Simon's. Or that the music and lyrics would be found in Stephen Sondheim's or Richard Rodgers' wastebaskets, let alone their bottom drawers. The book relies loosely on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, never as a spine chiller but as a rib splitter...
...human ailments, none is more common or causes more consternation than the headache. An anonymous Sumerian poet wrote about his blinding pain 3,000 years before Christ. England's "Bloody Mary" Tudor went to her coronation with a splitter. Ulysses S. Grant suffered so severely that he took to his bed on the eve of Appomattox, only to have his pain vanish when he received word that Robert E. Lee was ready to discuss surrender. Thomas Jefferson, who suffered from severe periodic headaches, tried philosophically to ignore them...