Word: sloping
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...can’t write because I can’t think and if I can’t think, why am I alive?’” she said. “It was a huge spiral; it was the biggest kind of slippery slope you could imagine...
...Cornell will hold its annual Slope Day, originally conceived in 1901 as a celebration of warm weather and the end of the academic year. While the event has in the past included activities like mock bullfighting and circuses, this year, Slope Day will feature the R&B artist Drake and additional performances from musicians like synth pop band Francis & The Lights and Canadian rapper...
...between nature and the world of human emotion. In the poem “Variations on a Passage in Edward Abbey” Hass opens by precisely describing the formation of a dune: “twenty to twenty-five degrees from the horizontal. On the leeward side / the slope is much steeper, usually about thirty-four degrees...
...like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad. I'm never scared. I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it. (Watch TIME's video "As Vonn Wins, a 'Bluebird' Day for Whistler Skiers...
...Either direction could destabilize the country. Devolution could spark a civil war between Arabs and Kurds, while further centralization in a country with a history of totalitarianism could put Iraq on a slippery slope to a new kind of dictatorship...