Word: skulk
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...Harvard players may take out their anger on U. N. H. and murder the Wildcats, or they may skulk to another defeat. They may return to their pre-vacation excellence and come away with a solid victory...
...more popular than Pusey, it may not be because he is any more liberal, but simply because he knows his true constituency better, because he will not embarrass them with obstinacy on minor issues, and because he will have their support, and not, like Claudius, have to skulk about his own domain in fear of some treacherous Hamlet in his own camp...
With appropriately graphic, and occasionally very funny, antique engravings to illustrate the text, the author deftly deals with the genesis (and sometimes the subsequent exodus from the language) of more than 100 collective nouns (a gaggle of geese, a pride of lions, a skulk of foxes, a labor of moles), most of which began in the 1400s in England as precise terms of venery. Happily, the collection has continued to grow during the intervening centuries: a shrivel of critics, an unction of undertakers (which, in larger groups, becomes an extreme unction of undertakers), and a swish of hairdressers. Etymology...
...want to mark me a thief," he shouted, "do it today, do it before the sun goes down and let me skulk away . . . ashamed to face you tomorrow!" He reminded his colleagues that "you're in a position to destroy me, and I'm aware of it. My life is at stake. I'm not asking much. All I want is a fair shake." For all his histrionics, only three Senators-Connecticut's Abraham Ribicoff, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Texas' John Tower-joined Long and Dodd in voting against censure...
Sensing their inadequacy, such men often approach the steps with the exaggerated skulk of a silent movie Indian. Shoulders forced close together, head dropped but eyes in all directions, they scuttle up the steps close to one of the stone blocks on either side. This saves half the face from sleazy scrutiny. Once behind the protecting curtain of columns they turn and walk 25 paces to the doorway...