Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bewildered by a foot clutch, a manual stick shift and a tricky choke, the robber flooded the engine. The car lurched and died. He started it again, and again the Ford coughed and pooped out. The driver, desperate, looked across the street. There stood a group of demolition workers who had been tearing down an old slaughterhouse. They now became the central figures in a modern morality play...
Berenger remains as the only citizen to escape transformation. He is alone, fighting for "a set of moral standards," pledging to stick up for the human world in which he was a bumbling failure. At the end of the play, the audience should be relieved and tired--relieved that they, like Berenger, didn't grow horns, and tired from fighting the herd along with him. They aren't, for Barend fails to communicate; his delivery is slurred and his funny lines dribble out like sap from a rubber tree. He plays a weak foil to a fine supporting cast...
Last summer a Brazilian farmer named Osório Fernandes took his don key Pelé with him to town. In the marketplace of Venceslau Guimarâes, a small boy began tormenting Pelé with a stick, and the donkey struck back-killing the boy with a kick in the head. Police Chief Emiliano Gonçalves had the farmer arrested, but Fernandes wept so profusely in his jail cell that Gonçalves changed his mind and locked up the donkey instead. The charge against the animal: murder. Osório Fernandes angrily leveled a charge...
...stopped at the white cells. "This trash keeps it up, you go ahead and do what you got to do," one said meaningfully to my cellmates. On the Negro side, I could hear the clatter of a drawn gun on bars like a stick dragged along a picket fence. "They'll be no damn singing in this jail!" came the shout. We got handcuffs to lock ever' one a you to the bars. Y'all shut up an' stay shut up--raisin' san' when we got to work...
...presented a problem when his second shot caught a trap 70 ft. from the pin. So he pulled out his sand wedge, swung-and blasted the ball straight into the cup. At that, the Duke of Windsor, watching from the edge of the green, tumbled straight off his shooting stick. "Greatest shot I ever saw," he gasped. Arnie Palmer yanked his ailing game together to fire a 34 and ensure the U.S. team a victory that was worth $1,000 to each partner. But Nicklaus' final-round 32 gave him a 63-hole total of 237-15 under...