Word: bendings
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...sorry," a doorman intervenes, "you guys have to take the stairs." We start climbing. We immediately discover that our time outside has left our knee-joints frozen solid. We simply can't bend our legs. It takes 30 minutes to drag ourselves up to the mezzanine...
...refreshed from walking but I couldn't bend my leg," he said...
...pointers along the way and tell you if you had toilet paper stuck to the bottom of your shoe. Looking at the world through the magazine's rose-tinted cat-eye glasses convinced me to hang in there, that new ideas and a hip new world were around every bend. Maybe I was just projecting my erstwhile wish for a big sister on a bunch of hapless staff writers. I'm glad, though, that I don't need hand-holding anymore, because Jane makes the world feel like a vast desert populated only by celebrity wannabes, empty tubes of M.A.C...
...economic traffic jams the world has ever seen. Discipline has always been Zhu's touchstone, from his early days as a lowly planning official to his current position as China's fiscal field marshal. When he was mayor of Shanghai in 1988, two relatives asked him over dinner to bend strict residency laws so they could come to live in the port city. Zhu turned them down, according to another family member present, saying, "What I can do, I have done already. What I cannot do, I will never...
...Justice" granted its teaching fellows a great deal of power-in fact, too much power. in addition to steering section discussions and setting paper guidelines, each section leader was given the authority to determine his own method of grading first-year students. While some section leaders were willing to bend over backward to help the new students, others graded first-years as stringently as seniors. And though both options have merit, this inconsistency across sections of the same class should cease. First-year grading should be standardized across each course, by a consensus of the teaching fellows and the course...