Word: thinning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there's plenty) comes from sustained volleys, deadly serves-the hard plastic ball reaches speeds up to 100 km/h-and the cartwheel spike, a power move of agility and aggression where a player backflips into the air to strike the ball with his foot (the court is only covered with thin matting, so landing without injury requires practice). A defender usually leaps up to block a spike, resulting in a dramatic acrobatic showdown-on nearly every play. Some rallies include many spikes and blocks, ratcheting up the suspense until the crowd is collectively gasping. "If you see a bicycle kick...
...nothing less than "a crisis in emergency mental health care." In March, Ebbert says, emergency medical service teams logged more than 300 hours in wait time at local emergency rooms, waiting for space to open up for people needing psychiatric care. The New Orleans Police Department, stretched perilously thin since the storm, had 207 cases in the same period where cops waited up to three hours with patients picked up for mental health disorders, or had to drive miles to a suburban ER that could admit them. In many cases, police are bypassing hospitals altogether and taking detainees to jail...
...handers (and this is how he still plays). A car crash in his early 20s ("we were road racing and I drove my car into a ravine") gave him the limp that he still walks with at 45; in his head are two drainage holes, covered merely by a thin layer of skin, bored during brain surgery, the legacy of another smash that almost killed him. He will sit and drink Scotch after Scotch with disconcerting ease and tell of a bluesman's life-of scrapes with jealous musicians wanting to cut his fingers off, and of playing to audiences...
...known for shying away from any subject matter. But there is one thing which impresses the irascible musician: “Is it weird that you go to Harvard?” he asks, lounging in flip-flops, faded jeans and a gray sweater which elongate his thin frame. “Have you published yet? You better,” he says. “If you don’t go out and cure cancer, you’re fucked.” Jenkins then went on to imitate the H-bomb dropping awkwardness...
...life, liberty, the pursuit of comedy...I think really harkening back to Dionysian values is where my heart is.” For Brener, exploring theater at Harvard has meant involvement with some of the college’s oldest groups, Hasty Pudding Theatricals and the improvisational group On Thin Ice (OTI). “The Hasty Pudding has the advantage of a tremendous amount of history and name recognition,” he says. “It’s by far the most professional experience you can have on this campus...