Word: feed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hives would return to leave their telltale red tracks. When my alarm sounded at 7 a.m., I heard my roommates scurrying to get their things packed, and then I noticed the burning itch on my arms. My hives taunted me with their cruelly bad timing, and only seemed to feed on my fear of them. I got in the car and fiercely wished them away, becoming more and more frustrated by their resistance...
...sophomore Peter Singh finished ninth overall. Five shots off the lead, Singh carded a 76 on day two, just one off the tournament leader. Shore and Shuman tied at 14th, a harbinger of higher finishes to come. Though golf is essentially an individual game, the team began to feed off each other. “If one of us improves, we all improve,” Shore said. “It’s on everybody to play better. Even in practice, if one guys plays better, everybody starts playing better.” In the spring, the team...
...sure if a generous starting salary at a prestigious brand name organization together with the promise of future wealth will feed your soul,” Faust said...
...Rats are almost perfectly suited for this type of work, argues Mkumbo. They are easy to train and transport to clearance sites, cheap to feed, and resistant to many of the tropical diseases to which dogs succumb. In the field, they are quick and methodical. Thirty-six rats trained in Tanzania are working on the project so far, and have already cleared thousands of mines across the country. "Two rats can clear a 200-square-meter area in one hour," says Mkumbo. "It takes one [human] de-miner two weeks to do the same area." And all that the rats...
...McClellan's book is another beta boost for the misery index. His memoir will feed the deep anxiety that the country has veered severely off the right track, that Washington is a cesspool of deception and hogwash, and that the federal government can't be trusted to do much of anything right. At a minimum, McClellan has not made it any easier for Republicans to maintain the balance of power in Washington. But the flap over his book is yet another reminder of how difficult the country will be to govern for whichever party wins in November...