Word: grind
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...heart, right down to my toes. And I said, "That's our next president." I said it right then. "That is our next president." Bush and Cheney - they've got more evidence to impeach these guys than they had with Nixon. Don't worry, the wheels of justice grind slow, but exceedingly fine...
...that made him "want to curl up with a bottle of scotch, set the Sex Pistols record on infinite repeat, and forget this city of bought men." The only solution: "wholesale renovation of the federal apparatus." Liberals will nod approvingly and smirk the whole way through, while conservatives will grind their teeth to the gums. Which is probably what the author had in mind...
...Thankfully, social repression leads to defiant counterculture in Korea, just like anywhere else. Young people flock to packed and pulsating club areas ready to bump and grind to American hits and the sounds of the immortal Korean rapper Crown J. The gay community heads off to party at “Homo Hill” in Itaewon, the international district. And wasted government officials delay their trips to “massage parlors” to accost groups of Americans and buy them rounds of whiskey bombs. (Thanks, Mr. Choo...
...semis. Just hope they get there. "Spain is the anti-Germany," says Keller, who played in La Liga for Rayo Vallecano. "Spain will do everything possible to not get into the final." The problem, says Reyna, is that Spain would rather win a 5-3 goal fest than grind it out 1-0 like the Italians. Yet Spain's game, says Keller, "is the style of game that everybody wants to see. Everybody has respect for Sweden. But what do you want to watch?" As a goalkeeper, Keller doesn't want to watch Cristiano Ronaldo standing over a free kick...
...population shops for Land Rovers and new condos, while beneath the ground, magma chambers churn, occasionally rising to the surface with varying degrees of destruction. Iceland straddles the mid-Atlantic ridge, where the Eurasian and North American plates are slowly drifting apart. Unlike locations where parts of the earth grind up against one another, the drifting apart of the plates means a lot of small quakes - but not usually the kind that dislodges wall radiators or send Scandinavian-modern shelf units flying across the room...