Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Restic, too, looked ahead, to days when the only rout(e) will be made of cement and tar and will have signposts pointing to Brown, Holy Cross and Yale...
tank: a shallow pool with a cement strip, slides and oarlocks set in the center. A tank allows a crew to practice as a unit in the winter...
Nora's childhood house was made of adobe, but she and Ron built their two- story, five-room house for $6,000 out of logs and cement. It is a handsome, organically grown house with unpredictable flourishes: the door handle made out of a part from a lawn mower, the recesses in the stone walls for candles, the richly ornate wood carvings throughout. Although the Oests don't have plumbing, a telephone or a well, they do have electricity and a refrigerator they bought for $10 from a neighbor who later shot himself because his condominiums failed...
...Crimson will have its work cut out. Cornell features a fearsome passing attack, and the defensive secondary is unquestionably Harvard's weakest link. Additionally, Crimson running back Rufus Jones--the outside speed threat who could cement an excellent Harvard attack--probably will not be back from his leg injury until a week or two after the Cornell game...
...McEwan's unerring prose and godly powers of awareness have made him one of the best of Britain's youngish novelists, a distinguished group that includes Martin Amis, A.N. Wilson and Julian Barnes. But the 39-year-old author of In Between the Sheets, The Cement Garden and First Love, Last Rites offers something extra, what might be called the McEwan effect. It is the giddy sense that given sufficient time and megabytes, an experience could be parsed into an infinite number of verbal and emotional moments...