Word: hunkeringly
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...three-putt. As I learn on ensuing holes, Sawat knows what clubs to select, measures distances like a surveyor and reads the contours of greens as if they're her personal rice paddy. While my rivals drive heroically only to narrowly miss putts, I revel in rough and hunker in bunkers?and then drain epic putts thanks to my guru Sawat...
Saddam has four options, according to a military officer working on U.S. war plans. One, he could hunker down in some well-stocked hideout and wait it out. Two, he could make a run for it. One possible avenue of escape is the system of intricate tunnels that U.S. officials believe lie beneath Baghdad. Three, Saddam could choose the Samson option, the most frightening of all: once he realized he was finished, he could try to take with him as many enemies as possible. His loyalist forces might launch suicide attacks and fight from schools and mosques to force...
...Manual manipulation: a dying art,” for example, Krinsky bemoans the handjob’s disappearance from the love repertoire, a change that she claims essentially removes third base from the sexual infield—leaving couples to either jump the canyon to home plate or hunker down at second for the long haul...
...small stretch of pine trees at Dara, a village near Gardez, Special Forces and Afghan allies hunker down on a frontline. Al-Qaeda?s forward positions lie across a few hundred feet of rocky ground, in the first of the mountains of Shah-I-Kot. The sky is filled with light snow and the drone of U.S. strike aircraft pounding the white capped peaks above. Occasionally, the jagged walls of rock rumble with explosions, and belch plumes of black smoke. Within hours the ground attack will recommence. Led by U.S. soldiers, these bedraggled Afghan fighting men in dirty shalwar kameez...
...magazine in Northern California, was planning her March wedding in New Orleans; her fiance was a New York City stockbroker working one block from the Twin Towers. After the attacks, she expected him to hop the first plane, train or automobile to be with her. Instead he wanted to hunker down with his brother in Connecticut. "He's telling me he wants space. And I'm telling him I want him here with me. Watching all this unfold on TV, I never felt so alone and detached," she says. On Sept. 13, she broke off the engagement. "I want...