Word: knee-deep
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...still haven't picked your new classes. You spent night after night compiling list after list of classes to shop. You trudged through the snow, albeit only a dusting, from Sever to Emerson to William James to Science Center E and back to Sever three days straight. You're knee-deep in Chick-Fil-A, thanks to quick lunches grabbed at the Greenhouse, and you've seen more syllabi in a week than most people see in a lifetime...
McSweeney serves on the poetry board of the Advocate and hopes to study the poetry of William Butler Yeats. "I'll be knee-deep in Yeats wherever they...
...sanctimonious argument that women don't belong in the military because they occupy a "protected" category. Not that that argument was ever anything more than patriarchal propaganda. When the Crusaders entered Jerusalem, for example, they slaughtered every resident--man, woman, child and pet--and waded, triumphantly, in the knee-deep blood. Nor have civilian women ever been entirely safe from their own "protectors." The subjects of Gilgamesh, the first warrior hero of recorded history, complained that "his arrogance has no bounds by day or night...His lust leaves no virgin to her lover...
...unrepentant hard-liner as "unapproachable." Yet if auguries are to be credited, the swelling inquiry may spill over and reach even the "Groot Krokodil" (Great Crocodile), as he is known in Afrikaans. Last week, after rains caused the Touws River to burst its banks, Botha's living room was knee-deep in water, symbolic perhaps of what Tutu hopes will one day become a flood of justice...
...that the Iditarod had become a "circus" run by people who knew little about dog racing. "I have nothing to prove," Swenson told KTUU-TV in Anchorage, "There are other dog races in the world." According to Swenson, his 16-dog team didn't seem right after passing through knee-deep overflow ?- freezing slush -- while crossing a river. When he finally stopped, Swenson found Ariel, a three-year-old female, had fallen. He spent 15 minutes trying to revive her. While the cause of Ariel's death is still unkown, race officials determined that the death was preventable...