Word: swifts
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...passed this unimaginable trial by water better than Fogle. In the first chaotic minutes, he picked up Dennis Hall, who had fallen into the swift-running current, and threw him to the safety of a raised conveyor belt. "He saved my life right there," says Hall. Later, Fogle risked his own life driving a coal scooper into a cataract to rescue miner Mark Popernack, who was stranded on the other side. It is Fogle who is acknowledged to have kept his crew focused, adamantly refusing to let them give in to despair. If anyone epitomized their fierce solidarity, which Pennsylvania...
...first edition, Poor Richard predicts "the inexorable death" of his rival almanac writer Titan Leeds, giving the exact day and hour. It was a prank borrowed from Jonathan Swift. Leeds fell into the trap, and in his own almanac for 1734 (written after the date of his predicted death) called Franklin a "conceited scribbler" who had "manifested himself a fool and a liar." Poor Richard responded that all of these defamatory protestations indicated that the real Leeds must indeed be dead and his new almanac a hoax by someone else. "Mr. Leeds was too well bred...
...this the jet lag you've accumulated while flying to your point of departure, and you can expect to spend plenty of sleepless hours staring at the ceiling of your cabin. Bring an eye mask, and if that fails to do the trick you could always try a few swift glasses of Scotch...
Lara Croft, Here I Come The karate master, a mean-looking dude with a Fu Manchu mustache, attacks me from the left. I knock him out with a swift kick to the stomach. Kazaaam! He comes back at me from the right, so I retaliate with a masterful chop to the chin. Pow! This fight sequence is playing out on my TV screen, but it's really me in the picture. Thanks to EyeToy, Sony's latest advance on the computer game, anyone can be an action hero. Launched in the U.K. last week and due across Europe this summer...
...rating plummet to a mere 27%. Constituents are outraged that the budget surplus he inherited when he entered office has deteriorated to a deficit of $38 billion, and that he's championing an $8 billion tax increase. But few could have expected that these problems would exact such a swift political price. If the recall proponents get 900,000 valid signatures by mid-July, a costly special election will be held in the fall. Voters will be asked whether Davis should be removed from office--and, on the same ballot, which candidate should replace him. With no runoff, the candidate...