Word: woodshedding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dales, one of those rare breed of natural golfers who can grab a club out of the woodshed and start to play flawless golf, caught his drive absolutely flush on the first tee. On the other hand, Fitzgibbons, who is a slow starter, hit a tee shot that followed the...
Early in the week, seven big banks raised the prime by half a percentage point, to 6¾%. That meant a jump in the charge on loans to the most creditworthy companies. Burns, acting as chairman of the Phase III Committee on Interest and Dividends, wasted no time summoning the...
Beri-Beri. Once he was shifted to rear echelon forces, he was treated more harshly. "At one point, I was told that if I had a nightmare and cried out once more in my sleep they would shoot me." The behavior of his captors varied considerably. "The range went from...
The language in Wilson's play is at times quite stunning. He has used the technique of identical repetition of a few scenes to good effect. But repetitiveness can be boring, as example by an old man's reminiscence of a night he spent in a woodshed with the local...
At this point the film threatens to trail off into rich boy-poor girl romance. But suddenly Jacques fades from interest; the story jumps forward five or six years; and the direction of the narrative changes completely. Marie is no longer the poor (but honest) farm girl, virgin down to...