Word: overhear
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...writing. I go through different periods when I'll write a bunch of things, then go through long spells where I don't really write anything. I just jot down little phrases and things I overhear, people talking to me, stuff like that. Usually when I have some kind of deadline pressure, I'll get prolific. When I do work, I work for long periods of time, then I lay back for a minute. I'll work for, like, 24 or 30 hours, 14 hours at a time, then readjust after that. Then I do it again four or five...
...next table, four freshmen from Pennypacker, who slogged through the snow for their meal, couldn’t help but overhear the seniors’ discussion and were quick to defend themselves...
...regarding Princeton’s athletic superiority, he appears to have a few misconceptions about the University. Sitting a few seats away from him in Princeton Stadium’s beautiful press box last Saturday, I had the fortune (or, rather, misfortune) to overhear his boisterous running commentary on the game. Suffice it to say that I found it rather ironic that he calls Princeton “haughty” and “oozing with pretension.” Perhaps if McGinn wiped the clam chowder out of his eyes, he might...
...with the idea for such sessions while studying political philosophy at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Several days a week after class, he and other students would meet with a favorite professor at a local watering hole. Often other people at the bar would overhear their heated discussions and join in. "I thought, 'Wouldn't it be wonderful just to have these great conversations all the time?'" he says...
Spend enough time at a health club or gym these days, and you're bound to overhear someone discussing core strength. The idea behind this new exercise buzz word is that the muscles surrounding your trunk--the ones that help you breathe and hold up your spine--need to be every bit as strong as your biceps or quadriceps. Indeed, says Wendell Liemohn, an exercise scientist at the University of Tennessee, "if you don't have a strong core, then moving your arms and legs won't be as efficient...