Word: swats
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...keep a secret, few men are as furtive and powerful as I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. A dapper, compact man with an easy smile, Libby has worked for Cheney on and off since the late 1980s. But that only partly explains his swat: during the past five years, he has often been the last man to speak to the last man to speak to President George W. Bush before a decision gets made. Libby is so spooky that even today, his office declines to confirm his real first name. (The best speculation...
...wait. We are obliged to swat another effort in the vandalism of the cinematic cemetery, Shane Black's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. This crime-laced comedy, narrated by Robert Downey, Jr., as a two-bit hood turned movie actor, is meant to be a parody of Hollywood action films, especially the ones produced by Joel Silver, who produced here. Running on the fumes of countless bad movies, Black concocts what might work at five mins. as a slam-tribute at a Joel Silver roast...
...halfhearted labor was quickly overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of patients and visitors. Nobody paid any attention to the NO SMOKING sign, not even the doctors and nurses. Broken windows allowed dust to enter, and swarms of flies buzzed around the patients; we used the X-ray films to swat them away. "All the rules of hygiene we learned have been broken here," said veteran nurse Hadi Abdel Karim as he paused for a cigarette break in a corner of the ER. "But we have no time and no money to spend on cleanliness." When I complained about the risk...
...flip the LEASAT's switch into position. The arm is not equipped for such a task, and NASA ground crews had to coach the Discovery astronauts through the fabrication of attachments resembling flyswatters for the arm. While a ground team experimented with a duplicate of the arm, Discovery's "swat" team employed such mundane equipment as Swiss Army knives and a roll of duct tape to turn some plastic tubing, wire, a metal sunshade frame and plastic notebook covers into tools. The makeshift instruments, they hoped, would catch the trigger, initiating a 45-minute sequence that would culminate...
With Cserny using her lengthy wingspan to swat passes in the lane and guards Katie Murphy and Jessica Holsey swarming to errant passes and loose balls, Harvard shot to the top of the Ivies in steals per game (11.08) and turnover margin...