Word: tails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wearing helmets and pads. The fans are so tanked up on rum and cider they wouldn't notice an earthquake. The band is probably under the stands lighting firecrackers. It's the cheerleaders who will be the ones to get squashed. Talk about ruining the atmosphere for post-game tail-gaters...
...pretty good time nothing super outstanding. Brommer commented after the race. "I was pretty worried during the face though there were a lot of people on my tail...
...Jackson sits hunched over at the tail end of his narrow cot. At 5 ft. 11 in. and slightly more than 200 lbs., he ought easily to fill his cell, but he seems to have willed a diminished appearance in order to stay in proportion with his furnishings. Most of these hang on the walls: a chain of beads, a pair of sunglasses, snapshots of his three children. He has copied William Ernest Henley's poem "Invictus" by hand and mounted it with cellophane tape. There is a picture postcard of a sailboat at sunset below what Sy calls...
...male) took to soaring like, well, an eagle as soon as he was released last month. But Betsy (the purported female) was not impressed. Three days later she left the premises; state trackers soon picked up radio signals somewhere over Ontario that were emanating from the transmitter on her tail. "There's an excellent chance she'll return to nest," insists Bill Byrne, a state wildlife official. "It's perfectly normal for birds of prey to make long exploratory flights before settling into a pattern...
...define punkah, punkateero and punkatunk. Sexy Words includes cataglottism, ecdemolagnia, parnel, renifleur and stasivalence (don't ask). Under Curses, Dickson offers such arcana as feague, which a 1785 dictionary defined as "to put ginger up a horse's fundament, to make him lively and carry his tail well...