Word: waists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PLAY OF THE YEAR came in the NCAA playoffs against UNH when hurler Milt Holt fielded a hard grounder at his waist, then straightened his cap calmly before throwing to first in time...
...girl was lying on her back, her eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling. Her body was cut in half at the waist. Most of the injured seemed to be girls. That was the shocking thing. They were beautiful girls with ugly wounds on their faces. Their clothes had been shredded, and there were open wounds on their breasts and legs. The movement of stretchers seemed endless...
Cott includes an almost intimidating photograph of George Macdonald, one of the most influential of Victorian writers. He has an imposing, theatrical head--with staring eyes, straight nose, and a massive white beard--a black cassock is draped over his shoulders and bound with rope at the waist. Macdonald wrote allegorical, spiritual fantasy in a language that can only be described as lyric and dignified. Archetypes people his tales--like Photogen, the "day boy" and Nycteris, the "night girl" whom a witch raised on "wine dark as a carbuncle, and pomegranates, and purple grapes, and birds that dwell in marshy...
...Waist-deep snow kept the crashed Fairchild almost invisible from the air and made escape from the mountain impossible. For more than a week, the little band lived on a daily ration of a square of chocolate and a cup of wine. Eventually, as both food and hope dwindled, the survivors reached a decision that any well-fed reader will find difficult to judge. They began to eat the flesh of their dead companions. The grisly diet enabled 16 of them to sustain life for 70 days, until the snows had melted enough for two of the party...
...baddest... As the sun slides down ... style is now trump and all hands hold the boss suit. Pump-up freaks are in the game; they rip off [lift after lift] until their muscles are swollen with blood and then, and only then, they strip to the waist. As they remove their shirts, a discerning eye weighs the audience reaction. If the crowd doesn't respond, they do. It seems the pump-up tripper can't believe he's in his own body. He cocks his head, he digs his arm and digs ... and digs ... and digs...