Word: sags
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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There is much that we don't know about this election. There may be another terrorist attack, or not. The economy may sag, or not. The President may try one too many cowboy tricks, or he may simply be seen as the guy who got us through a tough time. The country post--Sept. 11 may be entirely different from the country before the outrage occurred. It may be a more serious electorate, less tolerant of political boilerplate, more favorably disposed toward serious governance and ready to make sacrifices for the common good. Or not. If the world stays quiet...
...quadruped. Facing the floor on hands and knees, extend your right arm and left leg out from your trunk and hold that position for a few seconds. Repeat with your other arm and leg; make sure you keep your spine straight and don't let your abdomen sag. If that's too hard, you can also do this exercise while lying flat on your stomach. For something more challenging, try extending an opposing arm and leg while balancing on your stomach on a physiotherapy ball...
...against the incipient wet; they did not scaffold their trash-bag puppets against the breeze. You might call this lack of prudence foolhardy, but you did not see the joy in the children’s lamp-lit faces on New Year’s Eve. Their cardboard might sag, their flowered sails might collapse, but for the ten minutes it took them to make two laps of the main street, their hope was infectious...
...this is the tricky part, because before the public can link a rising stock market to a healthy economy, the stock market must actually rise. And it must keep rising. The markets have spiked upwards in the few days since Bush's plans became public. But they could sag just as quickly. As Robert Rubin used to say when asked to predict Wall Street trends: "Markets go up, markets go down...
...offset height disparity, Harvey said Harvard’s guards will sag into the paint to double-team the Holy Cross...