Word: everydayness
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...After a silent breakfast, the monks gather for rounds in the offices downstairs, when they go over the schedule of the day. By now, some of them are dressed in everyday clothes. They check the daily business, delegating cars to those who work beyond the abbey's walls...
...course, not all AL pitchers have been poor hitters. Seventy years ago, a mound prospect named George Herman Ruth hit so well for the Red Sox and Yankees that he was moved to the outfield where he could play everyday. The "Babe" had the most famous nickname ever, but thousands of players have been saddled with less notable monickers. Two points for each of the following players' nicknames...
Terror, insists the protagonist of this ingeniously macabre novel, is the % lodestone of the architect's art. It is a bizarre aesthetic, but then, Nicholas Dyer is hardly your everyday architect. A brooding protege of the great Christopher Wren's, he is carrying out a commission to design seven new churches in the London of the early 18th century. Despite this service to Christianity, Dyer's true, secret faith is satanism. In his crazed vision, those seven churches are temples built to appease the demons of hell, and he sees to it that their stones are washed by the blood...
...high, but they were not all well founded in fact, as a few pre-freshmen soon found out. "I got a bit of a culture shock when I found that some of the people in Canaday got drunk Sunday night. It never hit me that it would be an everyday occurrence," says Norton of her first experiences in a college dormitory...
...worst disaster in 25 years of manned spaceflight, most of us probably wouldn't have cared less. It has taken the cathartic postmortem of recent days to give meaning to her death, and to her life. It is a sad truth, one unintended lesson that this everyday schoolteacher left behind...