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...dung-and-sawdust scented world of bull riding, the verb ride is precisely defined. It does not mean "to sit atop a bucking, spinning, hurtling, heaving beast that wants nothing more than to throw you to kingdom come." That is merely to get on the bull. To ride it you must get on and stay there-for eight seconds. Which, in layman's time, is about six seconds longer than impossible...
...want out, but you also want to stay, if only to see how similar Mike Hammer's atavistic codes and instincts are to yours, and how swiftly and deftly Spillane etches this urban underworld. (As novelist Mirian Ann Moore says, "Nobody ever hit a noun against a verb like Mickey Spillane...
During the Web's infancy---long before Google was a site, let alone a verb--AOL reigned supreme and alone. But 17 years after modems squawked onto the debut dial-ups, competition has sped ahead, and AOL may finally be ditching its once lucrative subscription model for a more promising ad-driven approach...
...setting aside natural areas for protection. The Commission’s Chairman is Joe Melton, a man from Yuma with a deep drawl who (if his dialect at the meeting is representative of habit) seems to be under the impression that first-, second-, and third-person plural of the verb “to be” are “we is,” “you all is,” and “they is,” respectively. As my mother whispered, “Now that is a real old-time Arizona...
...gone?” This easy listening therapy is not limited to ex-thesis writers, but can actually relate to many seniors current plights of giving up their extra-curricular commitments that they have been “loving” over the past four years. The verb “loving” could be interchanged with writing, playing, leading or any one of the other words describing the actions of graduating seniors. Moving on is hard to do…and thus mourning a bit for your old time commitments is justified...