Word: tiring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...YEAR'S DAY ACCIDENT WAS terrible. A rear tire blew out on the Isuzu SUV as it traveled on Florida's "Alligator Alley" west of Fort Lauderdale, flipping the vehicle and hurling several members of a family onto the highway. A girl perished on the highway; her brother would die hours later. Medical personnel who happened to be in the surrounding cars rushed to the rescue of the other victims. A physician helped clear the windpipe of a woman and resuscitate two of the other injured, staying long enough to direct the arriving paramedics to those who most needed help...
...Studs Terkel or This American Life than to Tony Robbins. What ties Bronson's subjects together is that most of them never got that Pauline postcard, that mystical memo telling them what they were here for. They had to figure it out the hard way. Many pulled courageous, tire-screeching, midcareer 180s, like the miserable marine biologist who threw away his Ph.D. to become a deliriously happy dentist, or the hard-charging vice president at First Boston who chucked it all to raise catfish in the Mississippi Delta...
Hollywood is realizing that audiences didn't tire of musicals. They tired of bad musicals. When good ones came along--Cabaret in 1972 and Grease in 1978--audiences proved more than willing. While Chicago doesn't have the stylistic daring of Moulin Rouge, it is a crowd-pleasing reimagining of a show that is kept current by its up-to-the-minute cynicism, its skewering of the media and its heroines' obsession with stardom...
...just tried to tire her out with defensive intensity,” Cserny said “I think it worked...
...stopped with the tire on my leg,” she said. “It was on top of me for what seemed like forever...