Word: sackful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...This invidious thought needs examination. What does history tell us? Do good presidents stay up late? Or do they hit the sack like farmers, a little after dark, and get up with the roosters? What are the sleeping habits of effective leaders...
...They picked out of a hat. And she got him anyway. And they won, taking three heats of an obstacle-course sprint, with Colby frequently grabbing Jerri's belt and dragging her over, under and through like a sack of dirty laundry...
...Keith is pulling an image rehab that would make Nixon proud. With public opinion turning against Jerri, the whiny, sad-sack chef to the stars (two presidents, he said) is looking socially acceptable and a cool hand at the immunity challenges to boot. Tina gave him the last one, but this week's - a seriously convoluted pole-and-rope puzzle in which the most squares won - was all Chef. Following Jerri, he slapped down 17 placards like he was afraid of running out of them, and sweetest of sweet ironies, it was Jerri...
...looks more like a sack of potatoes than anything else - the coarsely woven brown bag the skinny Thai corporal is hefting onto the rickety table with a grunt. The sack gapes open and dozens of guns clank out, covering the tabletop, several dropping onto the grimy concrete floor. We stare at the jumbled heap of handguns, which I know from Joe, the arms trader who has brought me, are either Brownings or Smith & Wessons. Some have seen long service, the butts chipped and scored. Joe ignores these, instead picking up a snub-nosed Browning, still shiny with...
...military, grown weary of his endless exhortations to fight on in a civil war that has drawn in six neighboring states and been likened to World War I. Some reports suggest that the shooting occurred as a group of generals confronted Kabila after he'd reportedly tried to sack them. Many observers believe the prospects for ending the war are somewhat brighter in Kabila's absence, since his tendency to find pretexts for breaking agreements or avoiding them altogether had begun to exasperate even some of his regional allies. Kabila's army was reportedly incensed by a speech he made...