Word: chipping
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Every time I uncap a beer - and I do so often from April to October, televised baseball being the primary pastime where I live in New England - the bottle opener plays the radio call of the Red Sox 2004 World Series win. The opener has an electronic chip inside that makes removing a cap almost operatic, the way Sox left fielder Manny Ramirez does when running the bases - throwing off his helmet as if it were filled with angry hornets...
...majority's reliance on the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Criminal defense attorneys often cite the language in seeking their client's release, but are rarely successful. In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has relied on the Eight Amendment to steadily chip away at the death penalty in recent decisions barring the execution of juvenile offenders and the mentally ill. But even the harshest prison sentences are rarely reversed...
...audiences are spurring producers to unleash implausible killers and gothic disasters on their workaday protagonists. Take the hapless citizens of Walford, a fictional London borough that is the setting for EastEnders, one of Britain's top-rated soaps. Recent episodes have seen a troubled adolescent kidnap his estranged stepfather, chip-shop owner Ian Beale, to exact revenge for his psychopathic mother's death in prison. Ian's current wife Jane was shot during her attempt to free him (keep up now: the gun originally belonged to a pedophile who targeted Ian's 13-year-old daughter). Jane's doctors...
...parents and I lived in an apartment complex off of an Illinois highway for six years. We had two cats we brought with us from the city, Zippy and Zorro; the latter had been hanged and tortured by gang members before we adopted him. He was missing a little chip of one ear, had the hair rubbed off his neck, and wouldn’t let anyone within a couple of feet of him. When we moved, he ran away for a week, but after my mom rode her bike around the complex he showed up at our door...
...California Governor is drawing praise from across the political spectrum for his leadership as the fire emergency forced the largest evacuation in the state's history. An early critic of the state's fire response, Orange County fire chief Chip Prather, had nothing but accolades for Schwarzenegger on Wednesday. His "personal attention" to firefighters battling the blazes "is inspiring - knowing the guy at the top is there with them," Prather said at a news conference near Los Angeles...