Word: distraction
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tried to distract myself with anything and everything around me—the “Re-sign Lowell” chants, Jonathan Papelbon’s jig, a sharply-dressed Manny Ramirez, the Dropkick Murphys, Jonathan Papelbon’s jig, Daisuke Matsuzaka’s translator Masa Hoshino ‘02, the list goes...
...Driven by a most dubious agenda, shortsighted cut-and-paste bloggers, lacking all the facts, have made a feeble attempt at being crack reporters. This is an aberrant attempt to distract the American people from what the real issues are. Hard working American families need affordable health insurance...
...Crap on Your Face Knife in the Back A non-verbal attack. As the TF speaks, subtly make eye contact and repeatedly touch your nose or teeth, thereby suggesting that the tool sitting across from you has some unpleasant appendage in his nose/teeth. Not only will this distract him for the rest of section, but the semblance of intimacy will leave him vulnerable for future attacks. Effectiveness Factor: 9 Judas Factor: internal strife, eventual forgiveness, immortalization in liturgy/musical 5) The Bull-dozer KO Park a bull-dozer outside of Sever. After section, bulldoze opponent, thereby literally crushing her. Effectiveness Factor...
...Department (HUPD), which receives about 50 reports of annoying and harassing phone calls each year, according to police spokesman Steven G. Catalano. The majority of those calls are made during a short time period, Catalano said. “Callers will use a soft voice or a whisper to distract the person they are calling into thinking that it is someone they know calling,” Catalano wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday. The reports are similar to a string of phone calls placed by a man known as the “serial whisperer...
COULD IT ESCALATE? Possibly, says College of William & Mary's George W. Grayson. "The scariest prospect is if they are coordinating with the drug cartels," Grayson says of the guerrillas. "Both could be looking for ways to distract the government...