Word: plods
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...guys would like a more up-and-down offense to make it more exciting. We seemed to plod along on offense too much last year,” Housman said...
...seems the shuttle program will plod on. NASA has always stressed that all spacecraft--even the shuttles--are unproven machines. "It's different from a commercial plane," says Hale. "[This is] an experimental vehicle." After 24 years, two lost ships and another scare this week, it may be time to ask if it's still an experiment worth conducting. --Reported by Stefano Coledan/ Cape Canaveral, Deborah Fowler/Houston and Eric Roston/Washington
...bring delight to others. It helps if you have well formulated projects, but pay attention to your peripheral vision. Amazing things can come swiftly into view but pass you by unless you are prepared to stop, turn and follow. The critical issue, of course, is to know when to plod on and when to divert. Though it may make a well formulated life-plan go wobbly, I recommend a combination of circumspection and leaping. Leaping at graduation is particularly salutary...
Five days out of seven I wake up, roll out of bed in what my mother has labeled the scullery maid’s quarters and then plod down the skinny back stairs to the industrial kitchen where classic rock has become king—and not just any classic rock, but “WPBH: Puuuuuhhhkipsie.” (Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for the uninitiated.) I spend the day cooking, chopping untold amounts of everything and anything, washing dishes, wiping tables and setting up the “front” or serving...
...Clearly, the four Kucha members who came after Jerri didn't need much debate to settle on her, and as the show threatens to plod on for two more weeks of party-line votes it'll be the aspiring actress and her aspiring assassins that bear watching...