Word: pounding
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...back seat. “Have I broken the law?” I wonder. But the guard nods and waves me away. “Allez-y, allez-y, petite Americaine,” she orders, smiling at the irony of a little blonde carrying a 15-pound chain saw across the Vermont border into Canada. She knows that both I and my chain saw are harmless—that we pose no threat to national security. The chain saw isn’t for me, anyway, but for my uncle: during the summer, we’ll need...
...Second World War finished Wodehouse." Not quite. He found a new home and, eventually, even greater fame after the war. As McCrum also notes, Wodehouse was every inch the Edwardian: calm in a crisis, aloof but generous (he supported an old school chum for years), quietly productive (he could pound out a novel's first draft in days), and fit as an oak (thanks to daily calisthenics). Many of those qualities can be traced to Wodehouse's Woosterish upbringing. A descendant of Norfolk nobility, including a sister of Henry VIII's ill-fated wife Ann Boleyn, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse rarely...
With that news, the Harvard basketball community can let out a collective sigh of relief as big as the man they were rumored to have lost. You’ve got it: a seven-foot, 250-pound sigh of relief...
...care if the (Olympic) 100 m is won in 14 sec.," Dick Pound, founding chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, said recently. "I just want every athlete in Athens to be clean." They won't be. "We believe the gap between the sophisticated cheats and the testers is closing," says Australian Sports Drug Agency spokesman Shaun Winnett, "but you can never give 100% guarantees." That's because the pattern hasn't changed: as scientists develop new tests for banned drugs, the cheats switch to substances authorities haven't heard...
...care if the (Olympic) 100 m is won in 14 sec.," Dick Pound, founding chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, said recently. "I just want every athlete in Athens to be clean." They won't be. "We believe the gap between the sophisticated cheats and the testers is closing," says Australian Sports Drug Agency spokesman Shaun Winnett, "but you can never give 100% guarantees." That's because the pattern hasn't changed: as scientists develop new tests for banned drugs, the cheats switch to substances authorities haven't heard...