Word: blanks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...researching a book about happiness, trying to get to the bottom of why Icelanders consistently say they are content in a country they have nicknamed the "Ice Cube." I happened to live on the Ice Cube at the time, but I was taken aback when Weiner asked me, point blank, "Are you happy here...
Others saw in the devastation a blank slate on which Greensburg could build back better by building back greener--with energy-efficient homes and offices powered by Kansas' abundant wind and biofuel resources. The community could become a mecca for environmentalists, drawing green businesses and new jobs. Daniel Wallach, an entrepreneur from a nearby town, formed the nonprofit Greensburg GreenTown shortly after the tornado to promote this transformation. "It could be a living laboratory," he says, "to demonstrate to the rest of the country and the world what a town of the future could look like...
...never regained its composure in the second. “We had that great start, and then we look up and we’re like, what happened?” junior forward Evan Harris said. “We had a lot of point blank opportunities that we just missed.” The first minute of the second proved to be a harbinger of things to come for Harvard. After making a layup to tie the game at the onset of the second, sophomore Jeremy Lin missed a layup, which was followed by two wide open threes that...
Four a.m. rolls around, and it’s finally time to write that thesis—or at least that thesis title. After sitting down at your computer, you open a blank document and carefully set down your pithy words. You stare at the screen for a while, only slightly distracted by imaginings of deep-fried foods and ice cream. You center a colon on the page but suddenly your eyes alight upon a web ad for a board game: Candyland. You see an article about the latest possibility for a Yard Fest performer: Jimmy Eat World. No more...
...remember is that when I fell, I looked down at my foot and it had turned the other way. The rest is just a blank.' EDUARDO DA SILVA, striker for English soccer team Arsenal, on the horrific, season-ending broken ankle he suffered after being tackled during a Feb. 24 match against Birmingham...