Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bassett, 24, is coached twice a week on exotic machines with names like the Reformer--and the benefits she describes sound miraculous. Two hours of work with no sweat has allowed her to drop from a size 10 to a size 8, sometimes 6. Her stomach has been whittled; her hips have slimmed. She has the posture and lanky gait of a dancer. What she doesn't have is a diet, and her workout shoes--Pilates calls for socks only--sit in her closet, dusty. She's lost nearly 10 lbs. "People say to me, 'You look thinner,'" she marvels...
...movie, the criminal calls the brain "a parent's wet dream." But let's see. My relationship with my parents was better in high school because in college I decided to drop out for a year. They got a little pissed...
...sure to drop names and sound like you know what you are talking about. These are good things...
Passing by the MAC, I accidentally drop my box of flyers. Instantaneously, two men, about 30 or 40 years old spring to my side, apparently from thin air. Grinning at each other like mischievous boys, they help me gather the windswept papers. One warns me, "You be careful there," and I thank them with all the dignity I can muster in a skirt that seems to be creeping higher up my thigh every minute...
...will be unhappy when we graduate if we don't honestly feel like we have met many people who really understand us. At the moment, how many people are we intrigued by, yet afraid to approach blindly and start up a conversation? Let's drop our masks and try to get out and meet new faces, hoping to find new and different companions as we continue to grow and mature...