Word: shined
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...brain's extraordinary flexibility be pushed? Several studies suggest that the junior high years are key. Girls show the same aptitudes for math as boys until about the seventh grade, when more and more girls develop math phobia. Coincidentally, that is the age at which boys start to shine and catch up to girls in reading...
Katie Couric's. At first a Today show fill-in for wicked stepsister Deborah Norville, Couric stayed on to shine -- the understudy turned star -- and brought her perky common sense to the job of grilling politicians, tasting new recipes and coping with Bryant Gumbel...
Katie Couric's. At first a Today show fill-in for wicked stepsister Deborah Norville, Couric stayed on to shine -- the understudy turned star -- and brought her perky common sense to the job of grilling politicians, tasting new recipes and coping with Bryant Gumbel...
Some of the personalities and achievements singled out in the following pages will prove to be stars who shine only to be eclipsed, records that stand only to be broken. Many others will soon be swept into history's Dumpsters, as used up as New Year's confetti. A few -- we can't know which -- will turn out to matter, and to last. Whether by typifying 1991 or by transcending it, whether by embodying some great theme of the day or by quietly capturing the everyday, they will reverberate as long as, maybe longer than, the dramatic headlines now shouting...
...euphemism for raping them--but agree to let them go when the Major General appeals to their sympathy as fellow orphans--the pirates' well-known weak spot. Torbay, decked in britches, cape and sideburns, is the quintessential G&S nobleman, lovable and powerless. His skillful voice and comic ability shine in a song describing the Major General's impractical knowledge recounted in rhyme...