Word: scoot
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...money and manpower in New Hampshire, throwing nearly $850,000 worth of ads on the air and even handing out to undecided voters 50,000 copies of his warm and fuzzy Howard-and-Judy interview with Diane Sawyer. John Edwards' team was holding on tight, hoping to scoot past Wesley Clark and at least narrow the race a little more by the time it heads south. A new story line was taking hold: the election was all about electability; once again voters had flirted with the insurgent and then kicked him down the stairs, so they could snuggle up with...
...real life, a driver is the lone G.I. in enemy territory, and his car is his trusty tank. But that driver feels more like a doughboy stuck in a bunker. The traffic won't budge; his car can't fly over the ones in front of him or scoot under a 24-wheeler. In movies, says Donald De Line, producer of The Italian Job, "we get to watch these characters get up on sidewalks and beat traffic and go down staircases. When it works, a movie car chase is a satisfying experience." It's what the movies do: make fantasy...
...seventh power play of the game, the Catamounts finally cracked the Crimson’s penalty killers, though an odd bounce aided them. Sophomore forward Scoot Mifsud took a shot from the point that missed the net entirely, hit the back boards and ricocheted out to a waiting John Longo. Longo didn’t hesitate and fired a shot which Grumet-Morris managed to reach with his pads but could not stop...
Trying to be the first among his friends to “get a living thing across” the river, Cloonan decided to scoot himself over the ice during intersession...
...Ginger has now decided she'll play or work along with this persistent fellow, because he's so darned good. She's smiling when they scoot back onto the platform, in smart half-turns that lead to a triple twist for her. Their movements are freer, more familiar; competition is giving way to camaraderie. For the first time the two touch, though only to push the other off into a tandem of quadruple spins. Facing each other at the end of the second dance chorus, they hop again, this time like gleefully agitated kids...