Word: bend
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...appropriate one is fraught with peril. Alabama, for instance, may be proud of the Crimson Tide, but it sounds like a bloodbath or a serious algae problem. Notre Dame's famous jocks are ossified as the Fighting Irish, though Hibernian-American athletes are about as rare in South Bend as they are on the Boston Celtics. Nothing exposed the nickname crisis more starkly than the 1982 NCAA basketball championship game played between the Georgetown Hoyas and the North Carolina Tar Heels. Even if you know what a hoya or a tarheel is, the only sensible strategy is to forget...
...North Pole flight pad, Christmas 'round the bend...
Simon says put up your hands. Simon says bend forward from the waist. Where are you from...
...tailored they gave the impression their wearer had never suffered poverty, hardship and the terrible smell of thousands of chickens dying." That Perelman's similarly attired literary colleagues were not all fleeing from the aroma of guano is irrelevant; once the feather complex has been formulated, all facts must bend...
...heartbreaking." Her voice cracks just a bit, tears come to her eyes, and she apologizes. She is no Eleanor Roosevelt in health shoes, no Lady Bird Johnson rafting down the Rio Grande or Rosalynn Carter with a briefcase, ready to parley. She is so delicate that she seems to bend with each breath. To her critics, she is the most infuriating, contradictory and perplexing person in this Administration. Yet she could emerge as one of the most notable First Ladies in history...