Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...smallest kid on his team. He learned to run around tacklers purely as an act of survival ("I was a slippery little squirt"). Arnett began taking tumbling lessons in the sixth grade, is now so agile that he literally has been knocked head-over-heels into the air only to land on one foot and take off in the opposite direction. When frustrated tacklers finally do catch up with him, Arnett knows how to take his lumps. "If I hit the ground tensely, rigidly, and two tons of angry linemen landed on top of me, they'd break every...
...church of stone with his own hands on the spot where his daughter died. "I know no other way to be reconciled with my own hands. I know no other way to live." At that instant, a spring gushes out of the ground beneath the daughter's head. The father-and the Wotan-worshiping sister-fall on their knees to receive the miraculous water of life...
...Corp. employs Mrs. Sylvia White, a sociologist, to represent the consumer on the spot. She has shut down a production line because she concluded that a new change was not an improvement, explaining with housewifely common sense: "Engineers can design anything. But you may have to stand on your head to make it work...
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...increasing rarity of first-rate items outside institutional libraries. During that time it was customary for the great auction houses to announce after important sales that "unless otherwise noted, all books were bought by Dr. Rosenbach." The coolness with which the Philadelphia dealer, by an inclination of his head, would top a bid by ?500 caught the public's fancy, and Dr. R. knew how to keep publicity afloat. Solemnly he advertised: "Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, 1609; First Edition; $12,500. No family can be happy without...