Word: screws
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...crave: contact with other human beings. In each place, he wrote endlessly on yellow legal pads, issuing orders (many of which were wisely ignored by his staff), commenting in the margins of memorandums, annotating news summaries, denouncing his opponents and often his friends, urging ever more dangerous efforts to screw those he saw as his enemies, which seem to have included most of the rest of humanity...
...denied that gambling is a problem for him, he did admit that it could have a negative impact on his grades. “I’ll play until 5:30 or 6 in the morning,” he says. “If it starts to screw up my sleep schedule, it will in turn screw up my work...
...pool and read a book. Things are looking up: I get to wear a white T-shirt so I don’t freeze to death and I have the greatest Civil War novel, The Killer Angels, to read. I pray that I don’t screw up. I don’t know how I could really, but I still have that nagging fear of messing up the one take which would have been perfect. “Take 18. Background. Action.” At least I’m not in the water...
...great man is just biding his time. "He's playing for the long term," says a close friend. "There is a real danger in underestimating Colin. In time this will all be taken care of." A longtime former military pal says, "His idea is to wait until the conservatives screw up, and then he'll come in and take over." Yet another old friend notes, "No one has screw-you rights like he does." As Powell told TIME, "I can eat bullets. I can be nasty if I have to be." He is still an independent power; Bush...
...high mountain valleys of the Swiss Jura, Sandra and Bastien are discovering the intricacies of mechanical watchmaking. "Forty years ago, people were learning exactly the same thing," says their teacher Yves Antoniotti. "Some of the technology has evolved, but the basic techniques remain unchanged." Techniques like hand-polishing screw-heads until they gleam like mirrors, or grinding axle-ends down to a 10th of a millimeter using miniature lathes. And the young apprentices are also assimilating that other cardinal virtue in a watchmaker's character: patience...