Word: sorely
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...deep-tissue massage and other therapy that is much different from what weekend warriors might do to cure a muscle: "For a week I had ultrasound two or three times a day, then I'm sitting on a table with someone digging into a muscle that's already sore as hell, breaking up fluid that's in there from the trauma. Not much...
...most certainly about the dedication. While all Olympians own a catalog of long training hours and sore muscles, rowers are renowned even among top jocks for the zeal with which they train. Few athletes have a better level of conditioning, the result of the 30 or more hours rowers spend training each week...
...Tears came to Mr. McCain's eyes when he met with his own delegates. He said, 'I need every one of you to give this campaign the same amount of enthusiasm and participation you did for our primary campaign.' He added, by way of warning, 'America doesn't like sore losers...
...same debate in the barracks, and "It's too easy" was one of my main complaints in the dispatches I sent home from Fort Jackson (that and the boredom, and for a while my sore feet). Ask drill sergeants, and some blame gender-integrated training, others the "doggone Nintendo generation," others the end-of-camp customer-satisfaction-like surveys that actually ask departing trainees what they thought. (Somebody does read them, and the squeaky wheels are apparently getting the greasing.) The saddest part came at the end, when, after two months of taunting us with threats of expulsion...
...Thursday's decision, of course, will bring Elian back into the headlines, a sight for the sore eyes of the nation's news editors in an otherwise dolorous early-summer news cycle. But whether this marks the saga's denouement depends on the content of that decision, and the response of the Supreme Court judges on whose shiny table the Elian folder is bound to eventually land. The only outcome that would allow Juan Miguel to take Elian home as soon as possible would be if no higher court extends the injunction that has obliged him to stay. In other...