Word: breather
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...Option 2: Take a quick breather. Another mysterious product of my faulty brain, this option comes up regularly despite its complete lack of merit. It sounds so reasonable: Stop for 60 seconds, let the muscles rest a bit and catch your breath. Then continue with renewed vigor and resolve, having made the superior tactical choice. The only drawback to this is that it has never worked for anyone, ever, anywhere on earth. Stopping for "just a sec" during an endurance event is comparable to taking a "quick look" at the core of a nuclear reactor just...
...Maybe that happened Tuesday; maybe Wednesday was the breather. And maybe Thursday, a steadily robust rally from the opening bell to the closing one (even if volume wasn't as high as some analysts wanted to see), was the beginning of a long-awaited turnaround. Heck, maybe a year from now you'll be kicking yourself for not buying Lucent on Wednesday when bankruptcy rumors knocked that stock down to what, five bucks...
Midday is prime time at Fetish Fashion, a masochist's mecca in central Hong Kong, where businessmen take a breather from busy schedules to be spanked, kicked, flogged, sodomized, spat on, stretched on the rack, locked in cages, manacled to crosses, hung upside down in body bags and generally treated like the pigs they are. And they pay big money...
...three years, the Cleveland Browns lay dormant. For a short time I rooted for the ex-Browns who now played for the Ravens, but as their number dwindled, my interest faded. I took a breather from football fandom, although when it was time to write my main application essay for medical school, I looked to the Browns for inspiration. Even while absent, the Brownies were there for me, helping me, through their own battered past, find words to express where I had been and what I wanted...
...after five years of deregulation, five months of trouble and five weeks of genuine "crisis," the power system of the nation's most populous state (and the world's sixth largest economy) finally had to be given a breather by the folks at Cal-ISO because power reserves were dangerously...