Word: limps
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Need some stimulating new reading material for your bathroom? Has your interest in that stale copy of Diamond Magazine gone a little limp? Well, you're in luck. H BOMB IS BACK!!!! Details after the jump...
During the campaign the famously irascible Hall of Fame pitcher had endured repeated questions about his age and even his mental stability, and had stood by while supporters called his opponent limp-wristed. Always prone to outlandish statements, Bunning himself made news when he said his opponent Daniel Mongiardo, then a state senator and now a lieutenant governor expected to run for the seat in 2010, looked like "one of Saddam Hussein's sons." In 2006, TIME named Bunning one of America's worst senators. (See America's best and worst senators...
...started filming. Poppy-eradication teams tried to eliminate his set. Twice. Then the rains stopped. Poppies need water, and Barmak's hilltop had none. He dug a well. He brought in water tankers from 20 miles (30 km) away. Still, the crop failed, producing only a handful of limp blooms. Then a dog, specially trained for a key role in the movie, fell off a roof and died. (Read "Is the Taliban Stockpiling Opium...
...touring a retirement community with his mother and sister: "[W]e'd been given a tour by one of the facility's residents rather than by an employee...There we stumbled onto a scene that has been permanently imprinted on my brain: five limp, totally beleaguered residents - all women - were seated around a television set whose screen was pure snow; one of the women was clutching a doll whose single eye was a clothes button...
...woman's remains date her as being 45-years-old, a significant age at a time when life was nasty, brutish and short. She was under five feet tall and deformities in her spinal and pelvic bones give the impression that she may have walked with a limp, or dragged her feet. The presence of the hollowed-out tortoise shells, combined with intact bone pieces of leopards and other creatures - the complete forearm of a wild boar, for example, was placed under the woman's own arm - suggest that those living around her believed she had some sort of animist...