Word: toying
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With this advantage, Harvard began to toy with the Brown players, lofting the ball over their heads when an aggressive swimmer would swim straight at them. A few passing sequences between Withy and Ogilvie led to scores which widened the lead to 7-3, put the game out of reach, and earned Harvard its second place finish in the tournament...
Authorities theorize that Henry entered the unlocked dorm, went to the third floor and entered freely into Cleary's unlocked room. Henry allegedly strangled her with the spring wire from a wind-up toy, The New York Times reported Wednesday...
Perhaps owners should contribute a fee to this proposed fund proportional to the weight of their pets. Toy poodles simply don't merit the same costs as great danes...
...enemies tell contradictory stories about him, but more important because the narrator repeatedly reminds the reader that his investigations are a preparation for lying, for conjuring a fiction. Such modernist hugger-mugger has great potential for tedium. But Vargas Llosa's lucid intellect and technical gifts allow him to toy with uncertainty and shuffle time with deceptive ease. A good deal of Peru's mournful history and wretched present are economically conveyed. Leaving the Museum of the Inquisition, the narrator is confronted by a score of beggars. "They constitute a sort of grotesque royal court of tatters, grime, and scabs...
...Britain this week, World War II veterans, collectors and other fans of the Spitfire are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first test flight of the renowned British fighter. Over the years, the aircraft that Germany once dismissed as a "toy" has become the subject of legend and film. Composer William Walton sought to capture the plane's speed and deadliness in a composition called Spitfire Prelude and Fugue. That work was part of the score for a 1942 movie on the life of Reginald Mitchell, the plane's designer. The film's title: The First of the Few. Among...