Word: skips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...school sends young female health educators to brief sororities on the dangers of excessive drinking. Associate dean Bergen-Cico presided over a recent session for 40 members of Alpha Chi Omega. Among other things, she told them what many already knew from personal experience: weight-conscious women tend to skip meals before drinking, to conserve calories, making them more easily affected by alcohol. One simple solution: make sure they eat a hearty meal before they hit the bars. Patrick Kilcarr of Georgetown finds that nutrition information can be an effective tool. He asks the women he sees to tell...
...listen to this new album by the acclaimed jazz singer: 1) Skip all slow songs more than five minutes long that have contemplative, New Age ambiance, acoustic guitar and solemn lyrics. This includes Wilson's spaced-out cover of the Band's The Weight, which drags like a lead trailer. 2) Dance contentedly to her shorter originals, like Show Me a Love. 3) Listen to the traditional jazz number Darkness on the Delta and the blues classic You Gotta Move, and find yourself transported by her low, earthy voice. Mourn that she so often wastes it on distractingly pretentious material...
Emerging into painful consciousness the next afternoon, I decide to salve my pounding head with a shopping spree (and half a bottle of aspirin). I skip the overpriced stores of Shangxiajiu and go to Dongshan district for cheap, brand-name Western garments. I then proceed to go mad, spending $106 on clothes, including a $7 leather "Gucci" wallet the clerk assures me was made in Italy?which must be what they're calling Shenzhen...
...It’s important that the right shots are called,” Crawford said. “If you call a shot and someone misses that shot, the skip has to figure out what the secondary shot is. You have to read what the rock is doing...
...tied them with one end to go, and their skip had to essentially draw to the button and he made the shot,” Crawford said...