Word: bulling
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...initial response to this distress may be a familiar one to my fellow Harvard students—I decided to work harder, to sleep less, and to spend much of my Crimson Cash on coffee and Red Bull. And while I did notice some improvement here and there, I knew this approach was unsustainable. Exhausted and bleary-eyed on Friday nights as I reflected on the school week that had just ended, I felt overwhelmed and intimidated by the work that lay ahead...
...work, but there are always those dogs stuck in there. So it's really certain individual performances, not individual actors, that stick out in my head. As for those performances, it is hard to get better than Marlon Brando in Street Car or Denzel in X. Deniro in Raging Bull. Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon. Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice...
...boomed at each encounter. "What do you think of Manchester?" One of his interlocutors, a party stalwart who has worked with Brown since before Labour swept to power in 1997, quietly reminded him that they were long-standing colleagues. His tousled host shook his mighty head like a bull that had just been pricked by an impudent picador. "Oh," he said, still evidently none the wiser. "Anyway, what do you think of Manchester...
...competitors' feet and they will tell the narrative. From the beginning of the bout, De La Hoya's red-colored shoes strided toward the elusive Mayweather. De La Hoya's aggressive strategy was born on the belief that he needed to engage his opponent in a brawl, to bull Mayweather, who tends to sidestep his opponents with ghost-like body movements. De La Hoya, an angular man who stands two inches taller than Mayweather, wanted to get in close and use his power and size to overwhelm his opponent whose gymnast-like body is difficult...
...After all this, it was no surprise that when the spacecraft finally took off for its 11-day trip, Schirra would be just as much of a pit bull about how the ship would be flown. NASA scientists had stuffed the flight plan with experiments and astronomical observations, but Schirra didn't want any part of them. This was an engineering mission, as the test pilots liked to call it, meaning that it was a shakedown flight for the ship itself, not a working trip for the men in lab coats...