Word: radius
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...fallout from the H-Bomb, it seems, has a radius extending beyond the college years. While their Harvard educations are old news—and old jokes—for their NFL teammates and coaches, Morris and Soriano’s new NFL Europe colleagues still have to get over the shock...
...three years have passed, and my parents and their new “children” are now preparing to move three hours away to a new house. That’s outside what I call the laundry zone, the maximum radius for a spoiled only child to travel home for clean clothes. It’s finally happened: I have been...
...Packard swept past the weary-legged UVM rearguard, making a complete loop around the goal—an imitation, albeit shorter in radius, of what Miles had done moments before. Packard then wheeled at the left faceoff circle, beating Russell to the far side with only 57 seconds remaining in the second...
...with two stores in Paris and one in London. From her office, which doubles as her dorm room, Poilane presides over the stores, as well as the factory in Paris. She also manages the 23 trucks that distribute the newly baked bread to destinations within a 24-hour driving radius (to ensure freshness). Fortunately, since she was a toddler—“a little shit” as she described herself—Poilane has wanted to follow in her father’s footsteps. While other kids ate her family’s bread, this enfant terrible...
...upgrade the standard 17-in. wheels on an SUV to 22- or even 24-in. rims, which often requires shaving off part of the wheel well. Plus-size rims have to be paired with thinner tires, which means the ride gets bumpier, the braking distance increases and the turning radius is diminished. "Instead of making a three-point turn, you might have to do a 16-point turn," says John Jarasa, editor of Dub, one of a handful of magazines that have sprung up in the past three years to showcase celebrities with big wheels...