Word: stoppingly
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...athletic coaches disagreed: the following year Bud won letters in track and football, finished first in the school decathalon, and set a record by doing one thousand straight push-ups. He might have done more, but a teacher, worried that the youth would strain his heart, ordered him to stop...
...father, once over the shock and the shame of learning his boy's ambitions, crosses the picket line to earn money for Billy's audition. Issues of sexuality and gender-stereotyping are faced head-on but not pressed. He's no "poof," Billy insists, but that doesn't stop him from a joyful number in which he dons women's dresses with his (less poof-averse) friend Michael. The big emotional moments are manfully underplayed. When Billy must say goodbye to his teacher and leave for London, there are no hugs or tears. "I'll miss you," says Billy, from...
...study, you say you sampled more than 480 servings of fast food. Did you have research assistants at the drive-thru non-stop? These are people that work in my lab, professional scientists and students in cities where they happened to be, driving around to the restaurants, standing in line getting the food...
Palin, Sarah •continuing fabricated concern about Bill Ayers of •Couric's most damaging question to is erroneously recalled by •inability of to stop rehashing campaign speech of •McCain aides who spread stories about ignorance of are called "jerks" by •"open doors" to "plow right on through" are sought, with God's help, by •open door to Senate seat is less likely to be plowed through by •unavoidability...
...course, ultimately if enough schools publish their NSSE results, there's nothing to stop someone from factoring that data into some sort of rankings. In the meantime, colleges will continue to use it to improve their educational quality...