Word: hack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...religion but a way of life-a way of life that is hard to live because it makes you different from everyone surrounding you. The people submitting to polydoxy are admitting defeat. They are saying: "It's too hard to be Jewish, and we can't hack...
...Castle's attitude toward his black wife, Sarah, and her son, Sam. Describing a touching caress after a long day at the office, Greene writes: "He felt the black contours of her face as a man might who has picked out one piece of achieved sculpture from all the hack carvings littering the steps of a hotel for white tourists..." And when Castle tucks Sam into bed, he thinks: "He looked more African than his mother, and the memory of a famine photograph came to Castle's mind--a small corpse spread-eagled on desert sand, watched by a vulture...
...your only chance to hack defensemen from the hockey team without the threat of a five-minute major penalty, and you might want to show goalie John Hynes some offensive moves...
...whatever jeopardy the treaties face in the Senate lies not in the arguments but in the dozens of amendments that will be offered by opponents. The procedural thickets may be as hard for the Senate leadership to hack through as was the Panamanian jungle 74 years...
...Pickwick chintzes, Pickwick cigars, Pickwick hats, Pickwick canes with tassels, Pickwick coats; and there were Weller corduroys and Boz cabs. There were innumerable plagiarisms, parodies, and sequels-a Pickwick Abroad, by G.W.M. Reynolds; a Posthumous Papers of the Cadger Club; a Posthumous Notes of the Pickwickian Club, by a hack who impudently called himself Bos; and a Penny Pickwick, not to mention all the stage piracies and adaptations. People named their cats and dogs "Sam," "Jingle," "Mrs. Bardell," and "Job Trotter." It is doubtful if any other single work of letters before or since has ever aroused such wild...