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...assigning such a memorable but perhaps exaggerated epitaph to the stone of my endeavours in the Academy. A more accurate expression of sentiments concerning the taking up of duties in "that other place" (to which you referred as the "rival institution") would be: "Where, O Death is now they Sting...
...also gives Rafferty a platform for his eloquence, and he obviously intends to let the vested interests of education feel the full sting...
...loud at practice that he lost his voice. ''I've never taught so much football in my life," he sighed wearily to his wife. "Mistakes decide ball games." he told the Packers, and any player who missed a block or dropped a pass instantly felt the sting of his acid tongue. In pre-game pep talks. Lombardi's speeches were like something out of the Spirit of Notre Dame. Once he got down on his knees in the locker room and led the team in the Lord's Prayer. ''You wouldn...
...uncomplicated: "I like to knock heads." A driving, crablike runner, he always hits the line precisely where he is supposed to-even when there is no hole ("I won't be intimidated''), never cuts when he can run down a tackler instead ("I like to sting them a little''). Crouched low to present the smallest possible target, Taylor uses his head like a battering ram, swings his free elbow with the authority of a mace...
...Bird Trend. A distinctive look that may take over once the T-bird roof has run its course is the convex curve from roof to rear bumper found this year on Chevrolet's new Corvette Sting Ray and Studebaker's red-hot Avanti. Detroit jargon calls this the "fastback"; it is actually a revival of a style of the 1940s...