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...verb so often appears...
...DOES have problems. Cant terms and phrases blemish the work, including, foremost, "nurture" in all possible tenses and manifestations. "Parent" is used repeatedly as a transitive verb, a questionable usage more startling than necessary. Quotations, essential to carrying the book outside the limited experience of ten women, sometimes obtrude, making the prose lurch like some balky pack-animal. And the eighth chapter, a pseudo-Marxist critique of American society, seems incongruous and overextends the credibility of the authors...
...help me, that's in there, on page 232. And it isn't supposed to be a joke. But anyone who has seen my tennis serve will tell you that the verb lash is not the one most people use. The last time my neck cords were straining is an event lost in the mists of memory...
...each dish according to the recipe, starting at 7:15 p.m. Alice then joins a televised discussion of Byzantine art (which she has studied by computer). Later she wanders into the computer room where Al ("Laddy") Jr. has just learned from his headset that his drill in Latin verb conjugation was "groovy...
Should the verb be "to plimp"? The participatory journalism of such books as Out of My League and Paper Lion, in which the amateur ventures lamblike among the wolves of professional sport-and then writes about how it feels to be a lamb chop-is unique to George Plimpton. Others have sedulously aped his ideas and style, but the author remains an original: a leaning tower of self-respect, plimping all the way to the showers...