Word: knocked
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...about this?" I think during a dark moment of the day, as I get lapped by another skier, taste blood in my mouth that is spraying up from my heaving, overtaxed lungs, and catch a ski tip on a tree, causing me to plow into the underbrush and knock my head on my gun barrel. "This is not fun... this is just dumb... stop... please." Finally, the casual clockings we keep in the time trial reveal that I only need to cut my time in half in order to be competitive. Even my own formidable powers of denial are feeling...
...baseness is no replacement for innovation. The difference between the real innovators and Fox’s knock-offs demonstrates the real flaw in voyeurism as a marketing scheme: it self-destructs. The rush of novelty quickly dissipates and the threshold of curiosity creeps higher. At some point, terminal apathy sets in and a viewer becomes unshockable. The resulting cynicism among viewers, and their disconcerting attempts to recreate fantasy in a now dissatisfying life, seem undesirable if not outright destructive to individuals and society...
...Harvard and Dartmouth played the toughest non-conference schedules," Delaney-Smith said. "Hopefully that will be a learning situation and we'll both knock Penn...
...place match against New York "B", Ghosh squared off with former Harvard captain and All-American Tim Wyant '00 who is now playing professionally in England. Karlen had an equally herculean task in trying to knock off last year's intercollegiate champion and former All-American at Princeton, Peter...
...than the backward swizzle: how kind people can be. At the risk of sounding a little too Oprah, the loveliest thing about the lessons wasn't the halfhearted compliments of the instructors. It was the shared glances of my bumbling fellow students--the solidarity of the incompetent. Don't knock it. I received the first nonironic "You go, girl!" of my life, and so I went, on bended knee...