Word: gearing
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Sheed too knows how to deflect fear with badinage. His denial of denial is especially inventive, and the account of his English boyhood is high spirited, considering that he was permanently hobbled by polio and had to trade in his cricket gear for braces and crutches. Yet catching an early bad break had an unexpected upside. "The period when I might have been learning to adjust to the word [handicapped]," Sheed writes, "was so packed with small accomplishments that it was impossible not to feel like one of the world's winners ever afterwards...
...Maine comeback was in high gear when Trevor Roenick (brother of Chicago Blackhawks' star Jeremy Roenick) tallied on a Maine power-play, making it a one-goal game...
Harbury's publicity campaign swung into high gear last October. She staged a 32-day hunger strike outside the Guatemalan presidential palace, which she ended when National Security Adviser Anthony Lake agreed to look into the matter. On January 25, the CIA provided the State Department with what White House spokesman Mike McCurry now calls "new information"--information about Alpirez that was at the very least potent enough to prompt the CIA to begin an internal investigation. (The CIA station chief in Guatemala was recalled to Washington around the time the inquiry began.) Concurrently, Harbury was told that...
...amounted tocruel and unusual punishment, in part because his prolonged imprisonment had eliminated the possibility that executing him would accomplish retribution or serve as a deterrent. TIME New York correspondent Adam Cohen described the liberal judge's essay as a "bombshell" attempt to subvert aconservative high courtas states gear up for a "huge number" of executions. He notes that a growing number of conservative politicians and judges have been expanding capital punishment statutes and refusing to delay or block executions...
...terrorist with a Kalashnikov in one hand and a cellular phone in the other, talking to some faraway co-conspirator (or maybe his mother), is not farfetched. Manchevski makes this point almost surrealistically: his peasant gunmen go about their bloody business clad in Nikes and other American-made sports gear...