Word: bracingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Chopra knows something I don’t, I guess I’d better dust off the old suit of armor. Otherwise, come Nov. 7, I’ll roll out of bed at 8 am, just as I do every Thursday morning, and brace myself for the simplicity of preregistration...
...hail Def Jux, saviors of American hip hop. Not only have they produced a brace of rappers outrageously talented enough to redeem a near-moribund genre—in RJD2, they have proved that they don’t even need a rapper to do it. The beats and cuts on RJD2’s debut solo album, Deadringer, are as fresh as they come, neither burdened with artistic pretension nor simply catering to the dance floor...
...Afghanistan has not gone as planned. One year ago, as the U.S. military prepared to retaliate for the worst terrorist attacks ever perpetrated on American soil, the Bush Administration warned Americans to brace for a long, bloody campaign. "This war will not be like the war against Iraq a decade ago, with a decisive liberation of territory and a swift conclusion," the President said in his address to Congress on Sept. 20, 2001. Five days later, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that "it will not be an antiseptic war, I regret to say. It will be difficult. It will...
...your days seem to be missing some of their luster now that ROSIE O'DONNELL has left the airwaves, brace yourself: soon she will also be leaving the newsstand. And if the publisher of her self-titled magazine is to be believed, she has already taken leave of her senses. After months of public feuding with Gruner & Jahr, the company that publishes Rosie, O'Donnell quit the enterprise, saying she had been deprived of the editorial control promised her when the magazine was launched in April 2001. "I cannot have my name on a magazine if I cannot be assured...
...many got nothing. Genelle's family got her back with a crushed right leg and a few other injuries--but basically whole. Relatives held a joyous 31st-birthday party for her in January, after she had fully recuperated. By May, she was walking without so much as a leg brace, an accomplishment that astonished a doctor who had told her she would walk with one for the rest of her life...