Word: understand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could do aerobics with dozens of your best friends and still be too sore to go to the bathroom for days. And I'm only talking about "low-impact" aerobics. "High-impact" aerobics, as I understand it, consists primarily of slaps to the face and neck...
...support their cheerleaders. The Chicago Bears lost their chance when they filmed that Super Bowl Shuffle rap video. The Steelers have a quarterback named Bubby, which sounds a lot like what my great-aunt calls me while condescendingly pinching my cheek. Joe Gibbs is an evangelist, or so I understand. Guess that eliminates the Redskins. Their nickname is offensive to Native Americans anyway...
Finally she seemed to understand what she needed to do, and she began slowly scribbling the answers on the tired-looking paper, while her four-year-old brother weaved his Matchbox car in and out between our legs. The television blasted the soundtrack of a black-and-white Spanish movie that her stepfather was watching, and I tried to stifle my unruly thoughts...
Earlier this month Frank apologized to other Democrats for the embarrassment he was causing. The audience's eyes were not averted as usual, says one Congressman, because "Barney was living in a different world in 1985 that most of us don't understand . . . We have all been stupid when we have fallen for the wrong person. Most of us were lucky enough to do it when we were younger...
Whiting's book offers an unobstructed knothole through which to view the peculiarities of Japanese baseball and the Americans who struggle to play it. But a larger point also slides home to the reader. If Americans and Japanese cannot see eye to eye on baseball, how can they understand each other on such issues as trade? The answer is evident from this book: they are not yet able...