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...foot over the other and take three steps to the left, three steps to the right, rock back and forth on their heels and kick high. Egged on by hoots and hollers, a few throw in an extra turn or tip of the hat, but all do their darnedest to exude country cool...
Kids say and do the darnedest things. I guess I knew that already, but I was confronted with examples in every class. For instance, we had this one student, Adrian, who was constantly starved for the spotlight. Every once in a while, he would decide he wasn't getting enough attention and just sit down in the middle of the dance. Never an excuse. He just felt like sitting down...
Retired auto executives say the darnedest things. In his forthcoming book, A Better Idea, former Ford chief DONALD PETERSEN writes that his company's quality improvements during the '80s failed to put the automaker ahead of the Japanese. "Right now, I rate Toyota the best, followed by Honda, and Mazda does a great...
Hospital food is dreadful. Hospital bills are frightful. Yet they are nothing compared with the humiliation of the traditional hospital gown, an ill-fitting slice of flimsy fabric secured along the spine by shoelace-style ties that expose patients to drafts in the darnedest places. But the No Moon Co. of La Jolla, Calif., has built a better hospital gown: a soft, thick, robe-like garment with an overlapping flap in the rear held in place by strategically positioned Velcro tabs...
Well, kids do say the darnedest things. And as a two-year co-captain of the Harvard women's ice hockey team, this Cabot House resident has thrilled the Bright Center crowds playing the darnedest kind of hockey--where checking is illegal, of course...