Word: glides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cliche that jocks and cheerleaders rule, but it is largely true. While others plod through high school, they glide: their exploits celebrated in pep rallies and recorded in the school paper and in trophy cases. "The jocks and the cheerleaders, yes, have the most clout," says Blake McConnell, a student at Sprayberry High School near Atlanta. "They get out of punishment--even with the police. Joe Blow has a wreck and has been drinking, and he gets the book thrown at him. The quarterback gets busted, and he gets a lighter sentence...
SPORT: Rent a boat to glide along the Serpentine in Hyde Park if the weather permits...
...just started to spin when I throw," said Johnson. "Before I always used to glide. When you glide one day you are on and one day you're just off, but by spinning I have become much more consistent in my throws...
...Oleg Ovsiannikov, 28, can help it. The younger Russian pair train with the coach that Grishuk and Platov used to have. Despite their relatively brief partnership, they have already won the Russian ice-dancing title and collected two silver medals at the world championships. This week they hope to glide ahead of the favorites. So fierce is the rivalry that at last month's European championships in Milan, the two pairs engaged in a game of intimidation during the warm-ups, whipping by each other so closely that costumes were torn by flashing skate blades...
...both Gordimer and Walcott appear to be surviving the Nobel. Gordimer's new novel, The House Gun, which comes out this month, is a tense postapartheid family drama as vital as anything she has ever written. The protagonists are a white upper-middle-class couple who've managed to glide through their country's revolution without so much as a hair out of place. Then their adult son confesses to murder, and the stalled karmic wheels begin to turn. The story deftly brings home a tricky truth: peace can be as perilous as war, and even more confusing to negotiate...