Word: skips
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...mother only practiced the rhythms of her tongue every two or three years on family visits. When I decided that I, too, wanted in, I was long past the age to master the delicate accents, and I deserted the whim. It was simpler to skip over my middle name—Hoang-Ngoc, an unpronounceable compound word that means “yellow jade”—and abbreviate...
Dole has already tried and failed to follow the path of those three men from the Senate to the vice presidency. Now he wants to skip the intermediate step and go directly to the Oval Office. His gutsy performance as Senate leader over the past 7 months may help open...
...have your Prince and so-called macho men Don Johnson, Pete Rose and Sylvester Stallone. For me, it is the picture of Koko and kitten that makes my heart skip a beat. Shirley A. Tavormina Nokomis...
...League baseball—a crazy, topsy-turvy world with uncompromising academic standards and zero athletic scholarships—no team gets the luxury to skip ahead to the so-called Road to Omaha and the College World Series...
...Skip [Gates] were to leave, or if more people were to leave, than the future would be more uncertain,” he says, adding that now, “the collegiality, the feeling that you were really setting the pace for everybody else around the world [is gone...