Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down went this fighter to the rug. He roared out 'Foul!' The house dick burst in upon him to see the splendid athlete holding his groin, moaning like a busted pipe organ, and refusing to come out for another round." To Fowler's generation of writers, New York was always the Big Town, a drink was spiritus frumenti, and Broadway was the Rue Regret. Reading Skyline with or without spiritus frumenti, one question is bound to arise: Where are the monkey glands of yesteryear...
...presume to be the spokesman for the "disunited" (another untruth) Bouvier clan, let me say that all of us were proud and delighted about Jackie's engagement at the time, and that we are united in wishing her and her husband splendid years of service to our country...
House Speaker Sam Rayburn found himself last week facing a dilemma somewhat akin to that of a gold prospector who spots a huge nugget on the far side of a chasm perhaps too wide to jump across. Splendid would be the reward if he leaped and made it; but then how painful the penalty if he missed. Understandably, Rayburn hesitated at the brink...
Steppingstone Towers. The Sumerians introduced writing, and under their rule the arts flourished. Their temples-dedicated to such gods as to Innin, the goddess of fertility, or to Dumuzi, a kind of Sumerian Adonis-were huge edifices of mud brick made splendid by intricate mosaics of colored earth. The temples rose in staged towers much as did the Tower of Babel, and each formed a kind of artificial mountain-a steppingstone by which the gods could commute to earth. But above all, the Sumerians were a kingdom of sculptors who, in seesawing between realism and abstraction, seem almost modern...
...artists of Japan, he was fascinated with detail-every petal on the flower, every insect in the grass. He painted cows endlessly (he was born in the Year of the Cow), gave them such childlike titles as The Calf Doesn't Want to Go. "The horse is a splendid animal, but the cow is irregular. You can make more out of it," he said. In an early self-portrait of himself as a golfer, he made himself look like a Japanese war lord, his mashie like a samurai sword...