Word: flips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because American justice grinds on so slowly, because the appeals process in death-penalty cases often lasts years, juveniles who face capital punishment are almost always adults by the time the sentence is carried out. The aging perhaps makes it easier to flip the switch or pull the lever. But it also makes it harder to connect the criminal to the crime. "By the time the state gets around to executing these people, the kid who committed the crime no longer exists," says lawyer David Bruck, who is handling the appeal of Joseph Hudgins, 22, who was convicted of murder...
Lipinski skates with a sort of fairy confidence in easy landings. And until last week, her biggest gremlin was her triple Lutz, dubbed the "triple flutz" because she cheats slightly on the takeoff by leaning heavily on the inside of her blade. Then she stumbled on the triple flip in the short program, drawing marks as low as 5.2 for technical merit. She dropped to fourth place and later insisted in a teary voice that the fall was "not a doubting thing or a technical problem, just a fluke." The flub was shoved into the past by her solid long...
Stone says that such goodwill is not as common in Massachusetts. When driving in Texas, Stone says he waves to fellow drivers and that they will often wave back. In Massachusetts, they "flip...
...often the new ethos of road anarchy manifests itself in the mundane: the unsignaled lane change by the driver next to you, the guy who tailgates you if you go too slow, and the person ahead who brakes abruptly if you go too fast--each transgression accented by a flip of the bird or a blast of the horn. Sixty-four percent of respondents to a recent Coalition for Consumer Health and Safety poll say people are driving less courteously and more dangerously than they were five years...
...took only 38 seconds for Hobey Baker candidate Marty Reasoner to find daylight behind the Harvard defense and flip in his second goal of the contest...