Word: shedding
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Living humbly is important to Foreman. He even shed himself of a grand place in Houston for an $81,000 house in a suburb called Humble. He preaches on the weekends and Wednesday nights, mows his yard, trims his hedges and spends two days a week on the ranch, threading his truck between slash pines and pin oaks to haul feed to his cows and horses. Animals are his passion--animals and sleeping and eating. "I think sleeping was my problem in school," he allowed. "If school had started at around 4 o'clock in the afternoon...
Farley, 48, has spent 20 years of study to reach his Type T theory. In one series of tests with student volunteers at Madison, Wis., he made a connection between drinking and thrill seeking. While non-T personalities may drink to grow numb, Type Ts drink to shed inhibitions and are prone to act disruptively while under the influence. Says Farley: "It's experimenting with forbidden fruit." He finds that Type Ts have twice as many automobile accidents as non- Ts, and many even make a point of driving while drunk for the added excitement and risk. "We have become...
Sabremetrics combines the acronym for the Society for American Baseball Research, "SABRE," with "metrics," the study of numbers. Moreover, sabremetrics is the use of statistical analysis to shed additional light on baseball in an attempt better to comprehend the principles that guide the game...
While Schatz raised himself through the Mercedes' sunroof to keep a weather eye, Nicholson walked toward a Soviet tank shed, intending to take photographs through a window. At 3:50 p.m., according to Schatz, a Soviet sentry suddenly appeared from a wooded patch about 100 yards from the men. "Watch out!" shouted Schatz. "Come back!" Without warning, American officials charge, the sentry fired three quick rounds from his AK-47 assault rifle. One of them whistled by Schatz's ear, a second went wide, and the third tore through Nicholson's chest as he turned. "I've been shot, Jess...
...when individuals or neighborhood-watch groups, such as one in Sun City, Ariz., carry pistols. Handguns in untrained hands are a clear menace. Last year, for example, a homeowner in El Cajon, Calif., shot a 13-year-old boy who set off an alarm in the man's storage shed. In San Diego, an 87-year-old man fired at a policeman investigating a fire next door. Both men were lucky; the shot missed...