Word: midstream
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CHRISTMAS HAS COME early for the piranha, who size up my story like an unwary calf caught midstream, preparing to strip it to the bone. Leading the attack, of course, is the Antichrist. Making horrible little humming and clucking noises, he rips through my story, eyebrows galloping wildly across the unnatural expanse of his forehead. Each mark he makes is a slap in the face, a stain on my honor...
...strength, the power, not just to defeat people but to beat what they say: 'You don't have it, boy. Go back to your job. Get back on that truck.' Now I own it." This was Holmes' 20th fight for his varied heavyweight titles, having switched alphabetical organizations in midstream, demonstrating that champions are really sanctioned by the public. "Just a little advice," he said, "to David Bey," who was leaning into an icepack nearby, looking younger than 28 and greener than 15 fights. "Try to be a champion outside the ring. I'm going out of this game. Someone...
...answer letters." In mortal and modern contrast, Guy Lafleur, a Montreal Canadien once of the highest rank, lingered several aimless shifts before exiting last month as sheepishly as former Pittsburgh Running Back Franco Harris, who was bluffing along a few extra downs in Seattle. Babe Ruth limped away in midstream too, so departures of this sort are hardly new. Still, there is an impression that boxing has been spreading around its patents in the allied areas of recovered faith and mistimed goodbyes. Perhaps it is the money...
Take the boat to midstream...
...time, Kennedy's attempts to release delegates from their commitments to support the candidate they are bound to deeply offended my sense of fairness. It seemed to be a tawdry way to manipulate the rules in order to gain political advantage, changing the way the game was played in midstream. The precedent deeply disturbed me. I wondered if the change would inch us back toward a system that allowed individual delegates to hold the presidential nomination captive to personal whim...