Word: rackingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...concept of schlubs turning into muscular "winners." Meanwhile the underground press got its start by appealing to the counterculture's "turn on, tune in and drop out" attitude of the time. Both narcissistic and utterly self-loathing, unhappy outcasts need never look very far in the comix rack for cartoon versions of themselves...
...number of furrow-browed students frowning with concentration were filling purple slips of paper with their guesses for this year’s winners. Were Harvard students more interested in the Academy Awards than I had supposed? Curiosity piqued, I dashed to the House library’s magazine rack and discovered an Oscars edition of Entertainment Weekly so well-perused that the cover had almost come off. I groaned. Even at this bastion of independent thought, we had succumbed to the siren’s song of politicking, vamping and bad dresses (and worse jokes) that is the Academy...
...faced U.N. sanctions designed to control all of Iraq's foreign trade. In response, he has demonstrated a genius for milking cash from the very system meant to squeeze him dry. He has set up a network--call it Saddam Inc.--that involves smuggling, kickbacks and other scams that rack up steady profits year after year...
...minutes past happy hour in this smoky Guangdong snooker hall, and the lonely have congregated to shoot another night away. Every night at seven a downcast man claims a table for himself to rack and break and pocket balls in meditative solitude until closing time. Occasionally, he glances over at the yellow-haired man who nightly commands a table next to him. Tonight, the magical geometry of ball to pocket is off, so the Chinese man diverts himself by ambling toward the equally lonely-looking foreigner. "Hello," he says in his best English. "I am Mister Wang...
...Grammy acceptance podium. Brown took home the 2001 “Best Country Instrumental” award for her song “Leaving Cottondale.” Brown’s mom even chose her daughter’s dress, a strapless number she found on the clearance rack at Sak?...