Word: grown
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Mellinger has told his wife, Kim, that this is his final Army posting, meaning he's likely to retire sometime next year. The couple has no children, although Mellinger has three grown kids from a prior marriage. The last draftee then plans to move to Alaska, where he spent much of his career, and spend his days reading history and running with his two Dobermans. "When I tell my wife it's my last assignment, she just rolls her eyes," he concedes. "This is my sixth 'last assignment...
...daughter opted for IVF treatment because her Fallopian tubes were "plugged up" and that she decided to have more children so the frozen embryos left over from her previous fertilizations wouldn't be destroyed. In her television interview, Nadya said she wanted lots of children because she had grown up an only child in a dysfunctional family...
...fantasy baseball leagues that give $1,000 to the winner are small fry compared with the high-stakes world of fantasy fishing. That's right, fishing. The fantasy-sports craze has grown so large--it's now an $800 million industry, with 30 million players in the U.S. and Canada--that folks are picking dream fishing teams. And if pisces don't pump you up, there's also fantasy surfing, fantasy motocross, even fantasy politics and fashion to satisfy your fix. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
...your friend’s painting?EFF: I think it’s great.RR: What is it?EFF: It looks like a guy in the street.RR: Why is the guy’s head so small?EFF: Probably, because it’s the farthest thing away.RR: Has he grown as a painter since you’ve known him?EFF: We don’t really know him as a painter. He’s always sitting around drawing, sketching with paint markers and stuff. A lot of it is hip-hop inspired. Straight gangster rap.Sophie R. Wharton...
...derived a story from a given problem, he develops the plot by testing it on an audience. If the story can hold someone’s attention for forty-five minutes, he is confident he has a film. And as someone who grew up “listening to grown-ups telling stories” in lieu of television, he knows how to hold an audience. Even while fielding serious questions, he managed to draw laughter from the crowd.Schrader both wrote and directed “Light Sleeper” and “Blue Collar,” shown...