Word: slough
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...intellectually endowed but socially inept men who can turn a shopper into a scholar” and “beautiful, sexy, social-savvy women who can turn a geek into a stud,” the show pairs male and females contestants and puts them through a slough of intellectual and interpersonal challenges, according to the casting director’s press release. The couple that most effectively combines their strengths wins. Last season’s champions won $250,000. Hosting the casting call in Boston was a natural choice, according to casting director Kristina V. Gorolevich...
...closer cooperation with the U.S., and perhaps the acquisition of offensive weapons such as cruise missiles. It would also fulfill a goal the LDP has held since it was established in 1955. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made constitutional amendment the cornerstone of his young administration, declaring that Japan must "slough off the postwar regime." That kind of talk sets off alarm bells for critics who view any easing of military limits as the beginning of a backslide into wartime aggression. (Former Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew memorably summed up these fears years ago when he said that allowing Japanese participation...
...will join me in this improbable quest, if you feel destiny calling, and see as I see, a future of endless possibility stretching before us; if you sense, as I sense, that the time is now to shake off our slumber, and slough off our fear, and make good on the debt we owe past and future generations, then I'm ready to take up the cause, and march with you, and work with you. Together, starting today, let us finish the work that needs to be done, and usher in a new birth of freedom on this Earth...
...magazines in London. There he met a lively Australian named Danne Emerson, got her pregnant and married her in 1967. But she preferred hard drugs and serial sex, giving Hughes a dose of the clap she picked up from Jimi Hendrix. Hughes fell into a hash-and-Scotch-fueled slough of pity and paranoia. A book on Leonardo da Vinci languished unfinished. A Time editor who had noticed his elegant freelance pieces phoned from New York one day in 1970 to offer a steady job, but Hughes drunkenly denounced the caller as a cia agent and hung up. Fortunately...
...emblematic of inherited social advantage, wealth and the injustice of England's class system. I'd guess that parents put up thousands of pounds before the boys were born to reserve a place at Eton, where students learn they are superior to the plebian proletarians in nearby downtown Slough. Kenneth Carman Basildon, England The story on Eton College was very revealing about the high standard of education upheld by a dedicated team of teachers. However, you helped fuel the unfair impression that Eton is very exclusive. Every year Eton awards scholarships to poor children from state schools in England...