Word: staggers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great God . . . I tall . . . I die . . . Thy blinding light has struck mine eyes. I stagger on the bloody field. . . . Death . . . Horrid death demands I yield...
...decades of dental treatment by all the dentists in the United States today that would be necessary to fill the solvable carious teeth of the children of America at the present time. The figures in the estimate are like some of the mathematical calculations of the astronomer?they stagger the imagination. This task is not impossible, but it is as colossal as it is important...
...emotion. Lacoste took the first set 6-3, the second 12-10. The champion now employed all of those hackneyed stage flourishes that mar his more fervid performances. Even as actors of genuine talent sometimes paw the air and mouth their lines, so Tilden permitted himself an occasional half-stagger; he took off his shoes and played in his stocking feet; he poured buckets of ice-water over his bleak brow. However crude his technique in indicating to the gallery that he was a beaten man, it had its undeniable effect. Women murmured sympathetically. Men gnawed their lips. Lacoste determined...
...Rockefeller's first game of the season.* His opponent, he knew, was a dangerous player. He manned himself for his task, halved the first hole, won the next. So the match seesawed. Mr. Baker hit the hardest; sometimes, indeed, the natural recoil of his flourish forced him to stagger back a step or two. Mr. Rockefeller was warier; he never waggled, but bent for a moment over his club in the attitude of one who offers prayer, then struck. As they approached the eighth hole, the wearer of the cotton gloves was one up. Mr. Baker's ball...
...should stagger across the threshold of the Near East Orphanage at Alexandropol in the Soviet Republic of Armenia but Big Bill Haywood, Communist exile, wanted by the U. S. as an inmate of Leaven worth. He begged food, clothes, overnight shelter...