Word: pistone
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Daly wasn't flashy, but he dressed the part. Another Piston player, funnyman John Salley, named him "Daddy Rich," for his snazzy suits. Daly's coiffed hair, and intense stare, will live long in the mind of the millions of fans who fell in love with the '80s NBA, an era of great players (Bird, Magic, Michael, Isaiah, Barkley) and even greater rivalries, most of which involved Daly's Pistons. Sure, Boston-Los Angeles received the top billing, but the Boston-Detroit, Chicago-Detroit, and Los Angeles-Detroit playoff series are all classics. "I think Chuck understood people as well...
...philosophy reflected in the International Civil Aviation Organization's multi-crew pilot's license (MPL). Introduced in 2006, this was the first major change to licensing since 1948. It requires some training in small piston-engined planes - as little as 10 hours solo - but the bulk of the required 240 hours' flying is done in simulators where emergencies like engine trouble and storms can be programmed...
...brightest of these stars is Liu Xiang, a 110-m hurdler whose world-record-breaking sprints disprove the notion that Chinese bodies are somehow inferior to foreign ones in high-piston sporting events. (After winning a gold in Athens, Liu said his "victory has proved that athletes with yellow skin can run as fast as those with black and white skin.") When I met Liu shortly before Athens, I was struck by his individualism; unlike many Chinese Olympians who didn't choose their sporting careers, Liu actually liked hurdling. Although he did mumble some variation of the patriotic theme...
...more mechanical seizures, and the words, “I saw a savior / A savior come my way / I thought I’d see him / In the cold light of day.” Voices join in the background, building up throughout the song, sounding soft against the piston-pump that composes the spine of the track. Suddenly, the voices are gone. The beats duplicate themselves and pour in and out of one another, vibrating more eerily as extraterrestrial organs come alive, wheezing over the surge of it all. This is “Machine...
...immediately identify the source, I pondered the possibilities—was someone dragging a desk around? Was the room above me playing Dance Dance Revolution? Had the boiler exploded? I threw open my curtains to reveal the source of my discomfort—a 25-foot-long metal piston that was being dropped again and again to the ground, smashing and stirring up dirt as part of the ongoing Grant/Cowperthwaite construction project. What the Harvard construction website euphemistically describes as “ongoing digging and concrete operations” was creating a noise loud enough to wake the dead...