Word: chop
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...felt pretty good, considering the conditions,” Schofield said. “We had been doing a lot of work in headwinds and were expecting that, and there was a lot of chop in the second 1000 meters. Part of racing on the Charles is just adjusting to the conditions...
...FELLED. MARIE ANTOINETTE'S OAK, 321, tree that shaded the infamously imperious French Queen; in Versailles, France. Antoinette saved it from the chop during landscaping in 1776. The oak survived centuries of war and storms, but finally was toppled last week, 18 months after succumbing to dehydration in a heat wave...
...look at the opportunities each team had in overtime, they were very similar in every respect,” Grumet-Morris said. “Guys trying to chop it on net, looking for screens, looking for rebounds...
...need new technologies to solve our problems," Diamond writes, "we 'just' need the political will to apply solutions already available. Of course," he adds, "that's a big 'just.'" With Diamond's help, maybe we'll learn to see our own problems a little more clearly--before we chop down that last palm tree...
Consider, first, ChrisRix.com. Florida States’ oft-maligned quarterback Chris Rix wins the prize for the greatest collegiate personal website I’ve ever seen. The fancy front page alone might be enough to win such an honor, as the tomahawk chop echoes over a greeting punctuated by Rix’s digital signature, which includes football stitches down the “C” in “Chris” and an “i” dotted with the crucifix. The first section of the website is devoted to Rix?...