Word: mucking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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During the first 100 hours of the new House, Pelosi has pledged, according to Newsweek, to “drain the swamp” of GOP muck by enacting all of the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations (why weren’t they enacted earlier?), raising the minimum wage, and promoting stem cell research...
...hours it spends debating, the Undergraduate Council doesn’t deal with crap. Or yet this could imply that the newly-installed green toilets have consequences of a darker color. (Sure, facilities maintenace says that it was only a clogged drain that caused the backup of green muck. We wonder if their investigation included “karma” as a possible factor.) But we have resisted the temptation to trivialize the matter through any of these means because we firmly believe that this is a time of reflection on irony of the highest caliber presented...
...Hammer is forced to agree. "There in the muck and slime of the jungle, there in the stink that hung over the beaches rising from the bodies of the dead, there in the half-light of too many dusks and dawns laced together with the crisscrossed patterns of bullets, I had gotten a taste of death and found it palatable to the extent that I could never again eat the fruits of a normal civilization.... Maybe it did happen to me over there.... Maybe I was twisted and rotten inside. Maybe I would be washed down the sewer with...
...best cocktails, still in early testing in the most advanced cancer patients, try to include some agents aimed at cutting off a tumor's blood supply (so-called angiogenesis inhibitors), others designed to trigger a cancer cell's pre-programmed suicide pathway, or still other compounds that muck up the intricate signaling system that a cancer cell uses to guide and control its growth. Scientists are also turning their attention to metastasis, which is responsible for over 90% of the deaths from solid tumor cancers, by finding the genes and pathways responsible for launching tumor cells to distant sites...
...what's the next step for the beach boy who has the girl's number? You don't muck about, explains the tall, blond Tank. Best to fire off a message that night, something like, "hi its tank met u @ beach 2day how ru wots up." With luck, the girl will message back and they'll exchange innocent texts for a few days. It then falls to the boy to raise the stakes. Tank's preferred lines are, "when was yr last bf" or "how far have u gone." A girl you've met once for five minutes replies...