Word: utterings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foot lights as when Silver decides to preach issues. Pterodactyls does not descend emotional crests, it, plunges from them. In a Kathleen Turneresque growl, Grace bear down on Tommy with a triumphant speech, reaching the peak of her comic crescendo only to be interrupted by a gun discharging upstairs. Utter silence falls with the curtain as Todd intones. "Suddenly it became very cold." Manipulation reigns as Silver's king principle of craft...
...weeks ago, in an article about the Harvard football team's devastating 42-23 loss to Bucknell, I made a comment that was utterly unfair--poorly researched, exaggerated, an utter breach of journalistic standards of respectability...
...story, I tried to illustrate the utter badness of the day for Harvard. I mentioned the gridders' anemic offensive performance and its lame defensive effort. I then tried to square off the paragraph with this wisecrack: "Even the band's performance was more cryptic than usual...
...fans think that last week's comeback victory over Columbia sounded an end to those late-game blues, they are wrong. No team ever gives up the first game. It's only after utter defeat, after a team painfully realizes its limitations, that it is tempted to throw in the towel and call it a season. That time is now--the vultures are circling...
William and Mary games have set the stages for the past two seasons. Utter defeat has given the Crimson an acute awareness of its profound deficiencies, the type that can't be can't be remedied in gutty practice sessions and late-night strategy sessions. For the past two years, the William and Mary games--both in the second week of the season, have muffled even the loudest pre-season hype...