Word: slingshot
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...risk purveyor of gangsta rap into an imposing presence in rock, R. and B. and gospel, gobbling down an ever bigger slice of the $12.5 billion U.S. record market. God's Property--which went on to sell a heavenly 1 million copies three months after hitting record stores--helped slingshot Seagram's Universal Music Group last summer from fifth place to third place among the six top record companies, with 13.8% of the market...
Inning two, Boise: In the middle of the inning, while the teams switch, my mom's co-worker uses an elastic slingshot to get a water balloon into a hot tub being pulled around the field by a pickup truck. She wins the tub. We cheer. The Hawks get on the board. We clap...
...hard to miss. But he was the master of the small story, the kind we tend to miss. "I have resolutely pursued irrelevance out there on the back roads," he said. And so, with his warm baritone and neighborly mien, Kuralt traveled America to discover centenarian entertainers, whittlers, slingshot artists, brickmakers and an astonishing host of the overlooked, transforming them into roadside reminders in the media fast lane of a real world with real people in real time. Irrelevance, indeed...
...trip is Harvard hockey's equivalent of the West Coast swing for the Celtics or the Bruins. You feel very far away from home; geography allows the parents of some of the Canadian players a rare chance to see their kids play; each point taken from each game can slingshot your season forward...
...fight for entitlements and family values. Nolan believes it's important to balance the federal budget, but not at the expense of Medicare, school lunches, food stamps and public education. Although a former environmental-education teacher, he can't count on environmental advocacy as a pebble in his slingshot, because the popular guy is an advocate...