Word: suck
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...long female minke whale was done with her winter sojourn in temperate waters. It was time to head back to the chilly Arctic for the summer. Traveling north, she and her fellow minkes would periodically dive down to gulp fish, then swim back to the surface to suck air through their blowhole -- for like all whales, minkes are air-breathing mammals. They followed an age-old migratory track, invisible to humans but as well marked as an interstate highway to the whales...
...paradisiacal melding of the English word for ocean and the Greek word for earth. And the sea labors to be as close to the original as possible -- if not better. A computer creates perfect tubular waves four or five times a day, manipulating 10 large vacuum pumps that suck water into 40 chambers, then spew it out into surfable crests that allow expert hotdoggers to demonstrate their skills...
Other kids also affect somewhat un-Utah fashions: shaved heads with ponytails on top, T shirts that read YOU SUCK, nose rings and lip rings. University of Utah freshman Matt Irvine says many dress alternatively but have firm morals -- a buddy of his at the concert leaves for his two-year Mormon mission in a week. Lis Calder, 22, says the Utah alternative-music scene is a reaction to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: "I was raised in a strict Mormon family. My aunt thinks there's an evil spirit surrounding rock music...
Hockey even seems to have invaded the local vocabulary. My ballplayers have always yelled invectives at umpires, usually "jerk" or "you suck." Now a bad ump, like a bad hockey goalie, is "a sieve...
...compare with those in the suburbs, yet the suburbs and the media only seem to talk about injustice in Black neighborhoods. The whites of South Boston know the kind of liberalism practiced here and they don't think much of it. One popular bumper sticker reads "Liberals Suck." And many of them despise places like Harvard, which perpetuate this false liberalism to future generations of leaders...