Word: groundedness
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Boston ended up losing the game, with the next batter grounded out. Mussina, however, was far from happy with his one-hit shutout. Afterwards, the left-hander admitted to being very disappointed and mused that “it just wasn’t meant to be.�...
He makes art films that entertain and enthrall. A cosmopolitan chameleon, Lee seems at home in any culture while viewing it with an outsider's ironic acuity. Often his theme is a divided family, or a man estranged from his best instincts. Lee doesn't look for heroes or villains...
The timing of the "best practices" document is suspect; it's a blunt effort to head off legislation. The move fortifies a well-grounded belief that Wall Street--for all its talk of self-policing--will never do anything to undercut its own self-enrichment unless forced.
Archie fought the sexual revolution by bemoaning the lusty couplings of Meathead and his "little goil" Gloria. He fought feminism in the person of cousin Maude (and, more subtly, his traditional but steel-spined wife Edith) and integration in the person of his neighbors the Jeffersons. And when the show...
Nothing about the assignment proved simple, not even leaving it. Because the airport staff obeyed the curfew, many planes were unable to take off, so Greenfeld and the Weihenmayer expedition were in danger of being grounded. Surveying the amount of equipment the expedition members had with them, Greenfeld was comforted...