Word: lugged
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard ship sprang leaks here and there throughout the season. Sometimes the fissures were too numerous to fix at once. Now, the stopgaps appear firmly in place. The gauges check out. Every lug is lock-tight—especially in its own zone...
...same frustrating airport routine: We will present our driver’s license and our bags will get weighed, and if they’re overweight, we’ll have to pay a fee to account for the extra fuel that will be spent in order to lug our extensive library and Imelda Marcos shoe collection across the skies. But what of the unweighed excess that sits around so many Americans? Is it not unjust that Dartboard is persecuted so that the gluttonous can be left to go free...
...that makes MTV’s brand of reality TV so dangerous. It’s one thing when sitcoms like “Friends” derive their humor from stereotyped roles. (Ha, Monica sure likes to clean! And Ross is right, Joey’s such a lug!) But it’s quite another when these shows pass themselves off as “real” and Jessica Simpson ends up in Rolling Stone trying to dispel the notion that she’s as ditzy as she’s depicted...
...Sony's 60-in. LCD Grand WEGA is $4,000. By comparison, a 50-in. plasma set, while handsome and sleek, will run you $15,000. And rear-projection TVs have significantly slimmed down their rears, compared with older models, so you don't need a weight lifter to lug one into your...
...parents, clergy and community leaders. They shared their alarm over the growing numbers of elementary students wearing knee braces because of injured and overused limbs, the burnout among high school students who wanted no part of varsity athletics and the homework load that forced schoolkids of all ages to lug backpacks heavy with books. "We're creating a generation that's overscheduled by parents, overtested by teachers and overtrained by coaches," Garland Allen, director of wellness for Ridgewood schools, told the attendees...