Word: staying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...playing a girl who was a senior, and it was her last match of her career," Ghazal said. "She came out pretty confident. I just had to stay focused...
What struck Bagemihl most is those forms that go beyond mere sexual gratification. Humboldt penguins may have homosexual unions that last six years; male greylag geese may stay paired for 15 years--a lifetime commitment when you've got the lifespan of a goose. Bears and some other mammals may bring their young into homosexual unions, raising them with their same-sex partner just as they would with a member of the opposite...
...world was about to collapse--he surely knew Ethan would tell all when faced by menacing prosecutors--but few knew why. Tom and Ethan had told almost no one about the full scope of their extracurriculars. Tom wanted to run, but Jenny begged him to stay for the prom the next night. It was a heart-wrenching, five-hour conversation. Tom was obviously in big trouble, but Jenny didn't know how much. In the end, Tom went to the prom, though friends say he and Jenny looked miserable the whole night...
...case is likely to be over soon, and he will begin his sentence. He's trying to stay optimistic, stay Tom. He writes friends joking letters--he says he tells the days apart by watching a different daily parade of freaks on Jerry Springer. But lately he has been housed in a jail dorm with depressing and depressed people, folks on medication and not all there. It can be harrowing...
...felt as though I had swallowed a vial of hydrochloric acid. Actually, that's not too far from the truth. The stomach is essentially a bag filled with powerful acid. If it weren't for a lining of protective cells, the stomach itself would dissolve. If the acid stays put, most people never give it another thought. Sometimes, though, it doesn't stay put. Foods like chocolate, mints, caffeine and alcohol relax the esophageal sphincter--a ring of muscle that guards the entrance to the stomach--letting acid bubble up to burn the unprotected esophagus. Smoking and fatty foods like...