Word: unwound
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...said, but I also was playing devil's advocate. None of them had any disposition to quit. But they weren't really sure what I'd say on television until I got up to say it. The next day I still couldn't get unwound. I played the worst golf of my life...
...Rosenberger scored Harvard's first goal at 4:38 of the first, shoveling the puck into an empty net after defenseman Kevin Hampe's shot had dribbled through the legs of the St. Nick's goalie. Harvard's all-junior line of Dave Hynes, Bob McManama, and Billy Corkery unwound moments later, picking up four goals in less than five minutes...
Yale immediately threw away whatever far-fetched hopes it had for an upset, however, as the Crimson unwound with four goals in less than three minutes. By the time the buzzer mercifully ended the period for Yale goalie Bill Fitzsimmons, he had faced a 23-shot barrage and seen the red light blink over his head five times...
...enthusiasm went a bit awry. "This is. a good place to be," she told inmates of Kentucky's Eastern State Mental Hospital. It was a good place to visit, anyway, particularly for a farmer's daughter and former schoolteacher who has learned how to be an unwound First Lady...
...trouble with Heterosexual is that the play does not rise to its climactic moment but runs down to it like an unwound clock. As comedy, it is fitful; as a social comment, it is fretful, without being particularly penetrating or fresh. Considering how talky the evening is, Burgess Meredith's direction wings it along at a dancing pace with frenetic motion and effervescent, semi-psychedelic lighting. It may be an ironic reflection of the health, resilience and confidence of the U.S. spirit that the play, despite transparent distaste for American capitalism, was supported, promoted, and frequently applauded...