Word: sat
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sat in the UHS waiting area with nothing but a headache to keep me company, I reflected upon my physical state. I did not know, and still do not know, if I had swine flu: at the time, UHS was not equipped to identify H1N1. But, ,if it was swine flu, it certainly did not hit me with the force that overeager media outlets had portended. I had been able to walk to UHS independently, and although my sudden fever was a source of constant consternation, this was not the worst illness that I had ever dealt with, just...
Shortly before noon on a recent Monday, T.J. Cooper sat in his red pickup, showing off his digital camera. He clicked through pictures he had taken a few weeks earlier of a man driving a truck full of radiators stolen from a vacant home here in Indian Village, one of Detroit's last middle-class neighborhoods. No one, Cooper notes wryly, likes having his picture taken. "They try to hide their face. Or break your camera. Or," he says, driving up a tree-lined street, "break you." Minutes later, Cooper passes the same man, in the same truck, apparently scoping...
...Saturday’s game, an already-beleaguered Crimson defense was playing without the help of sophomore linebacker Alex Gedeon—who is out for the rest of the season with an elbow injury requiring surgery—or senior linebacker Conor Murphy, who sat out Saturday’s game with a sprained ankle...
...with a page-boy cap and a full beard—picked the strings of his guitar. He sang about Austin, Texas, about fairy tales, about a sun so hot it burned holes in your skin. We gave up on our table and Jim pointed to another. We sat and ordered beer. We felt out of place, in the way. We waited for the headliner to take the stage, a British singer-songwriter named Laura Marling...
...troops in Afghanistan, both groups still mount cross-border attacks there. To the east, Turkistan Bhittani, a militant leader who has mustered a small militia to fight alongside Pakistan's army, is leading it into South Waziristan through his tribe's traditional territory. So far, the Mehsuds have sat out the fight. "Our tribe is against these militants, but they are all afraid," says Maulana Banat Khan Mehsud, another elder of the Abdullah Mehsud group...