Word: back-and-forth
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...star, you can smell it, the tang of variability here. O how shall I render a what-where-who-how which is always all happening at the same different ONCE! O pi in the sky! 0000000 000000000000000000000000000 those first tingles of the singular in this bigotedly back-and-forth place...
Last week the bloody back-and-forth took on a new dimension. Down from the scrub-grown hills of India's mineral-rich Bihar state swarmed hordes of fierce Adivasis (literally, aborigines) armed with bows and arrows. Recent converts to Christianity, but not weaned from their fierce ways, they had been enraged by reports of anti-Christian persecution across the border. Before they returned home, they had burned two Moslem villages, left rows of charred corpses bristling with arrow shafts...
...refused, he excommunicated Henry, and had the warming pleasure of keeping the penitent Emperor waiting barefoot in the snow at Canossa for three days before letting him in for forgiveness. But Gregory's fun was soon over. Henry exiled him in 1084, and the back-and-forth went...
...kids to give him, but when Pa turns up he's in a bad mood, and grouches around and says to hurry up supper, he has to go out that night. At table he argues with the girl about her latest beau and gets into the usual back-and-forth with the oldest boy about the business. Finally, it all winds up in a big fight, and Pa insults the daughter's No. 1 prospect (Warren Stevens) and then stomps off to the pool hall with the younger boy, leaving Alma to face another of those long, long...
Increasing Impatience. After half an hour of back-and-forth before the committee, Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright peered at "Beedle" Smith and asked: "Look here, General, speaking as an official of the Republican Administration, which do you prefer, the Richards amendment or this?" With soldierly precision Smith replied: "There just isn't any question about it. We prefer the Richards amendment...