Word: warm-up
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...clearly a warm-up for the 25threunion," Whitney says. "It's supposed to leaveyou with a warm feeling in the pit of yourstomach." And, he says, "most people know that the25th is a special reunion--you're expected to givean especially large gift...
Aerobics begins with five or 10 minutes of "warm-up." (For those not fluent in Aerobicspeak, "warm-up" means extreme pain...
...effort to save time during "warm-up," I offered to cut my leg muscles with a hedgeclipper. Satan just smiled. I don't think she heard me, though. She always smiles. She is probably smiling right...
...After "warm-up," Satan turns on music that the CIA used effectively for many years to get information from captured spies. The music usually juxtaposes a verb--such as "push" or "beat"--with the word "it" and repeats this inventive combination for 10 minutes at a time...
...author, then 36, used these private notes as warm-up exercises for the day's work. He gave himself pep talks: "This must be a good book. It simply must. I haven't any choice." To readers today, the fascination of this document rests in its portrait of an artist at the peak of his skills. Steinbeck's outrage at the mistreatment of Dust Bowl migrants in California, which he had witnessed firsthand, fused with his storytelling abilities to produce the most powerful book he would ever write. It won him the Pulitzer Prize and contributed mightily to his Nobel...