Word: flexed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...purses and run faster?" The inmates themselves chuckle at the notion that biceps are a crook's best friends. Says prisoner Philip Shaw, 31, who resorts to 1,000 push-ups a day when he's not allowed in the gym: "You don't go into a bank and flex your muscles and say, 'Give me your money...
...junior, says that in her first year she had a Shakespeare TF with "the best arm muscles I have ever seen. He was really hot." "Beta", a junior taking her pre-med requirements, confides that during a lab, her physiology TF "rolled up his T-shirt and started flexing and saying, 'Well, the extensor works this way and see how when I flex the bicep..."' Beta is sure that he liked being able to show the class that he was a big, buff...
...protecting ethnic Russians. In some cases the tool is brute military force of the sort used in December 1992 when Russian-manned planes from Uzbekistan helped bring down a government of Tajikistan composed of Islamic and democratic groups, and installed pro- communist rulers. In other regions, Russia prefers to flex its muscles by yanking the economic rug out from under a government -- as it did last week when Moscow began cutting off gas supplies to Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine. Regardless of the medium, the message remains the same: Moscow holds -- and withholds -- the keys to survival in the near abroad...
...brave the competition in a quest to attain a desired object of prey is as old as humankind itself. But Primitive People had it easier. As civilization dawned there were no papers to write, no problem sets to do, tasks that make it difficult to set aside time to flex those ancient hunter-gatherer muscles...
...peck-on-the-check of death. Sort of a whisper in your ear," Lump observes wryly. "The whole idea that a B+ is a 'great grade'--that's so bogus... That's just laughable. An A is a 'great grade.' The B+, that's a way that [graders] can flex and seem kind of tough...