Word: heeling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Mountain Hawks' offense is its Achilles Heel. It's one of the reasons the otherwise strong team only defeated Princeton by two points and Penn by a touchdown...
...impossible to overestimate how much ranches dominate the Texas psyche. That's why people in the cities still wear cowboy boots despite how difficult it is to walk in that high heel. Johnson's generation was born when Texas was still mostly rural and when most people depended on farming or ranching for their livelihood. The state changed during their lifetime, but their sons and daughters--Bush's generation--who generally have left the country for life in the city, cannot admit to themselves that they have cut their connection to the land. To be born in Texas, even...
Taylor said she received an e-mail from Gyorffy that mentioned some troubles she had in Sydney yesterday. According to Taylor, Gyorffy's heel cup, which cushions and supports the foot, made her shoe too thick. That can make a jumper taller, which Olympic officials ruled was an unfair advantage. Gyorffy was told she could not wear the insole, Taylor said...
...wasn't that long ago, 1997 to be exact, that Harvard itself was in the national quarterfinals, and standing in the way of the Tar Heel dynasty...
...late King Hassan II was on the track-side cell phone to console El Guerrouj in Atlanta. Hassan also helped him out on a more delicate matter. El Guerrouj's Achilles' heel, so to speak, is hemorrhoids. The King recommended a doctor and sent his private jet to take El Guerrouj to him. Of course, he could have afforded to get there himself. His lungs and legs earn him about $2 million a year. But when a mere mortal is up there with NASA or Boeing, well, you roll out the royal red carpet...