Word: twigging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiep and got his buck last week began the typical solemn ritual. While the stag was breathing his last, the hunters stood by in respectful silence. When the stag died, the hunters bared their heads and bowed low toward the carcass. Then the hunt master cut an oak twig and passed it, balanced on his knife blade, to the man who had made the kill. The hunter lightly brushed the twig across the animal's wound. Finally, he got a leaf and placed it between the stag's lips to symbolize the fiep-deluded deer's last...
...Shortly after we heard the Memorial Hall clock strike 11:30," the student continued, "I heard a twig snap somewhere near us. I jokingly asked my date if she had heard anything, but she just laughed...
...Bending Twig. John Foster grew up under the hand of old-fashioned authority. He got caned and had his ears cuffed for throwing spitballs in school. Father, the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Watertown, N.Y., was benevolently stern. Mother was Edith Foster, a woman of energy and propriety who once became so appalled at the bad manners of the students of Auburn (N.Y.) Theological Seminary that she wrote a manual on proper decorum, covering such subjects as How to Say Hello, How to Say Goodbye, How to Manage a Cup of Tea. Young Foster, as the family called...
...Foster graduated from high school, Diplomat Foster sent his grandson to Switzerland for six months to study French. In 1904-the year when Pastor Dulles gave up his church to take the chair of Apologetics at the Auburn Theological Seminary-John Foster began his college career in Princeton. The twig was not yet fully bent, but grandfather was bending...
Luther himself was only too conscious of his excesses, and once, when asked why he was so violent, composed a salient epigram on his entire life. "A twig," he said, "can be cut with a bread knife, but an oak calls...