Word: waxing
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...wasn't the Superglue that held his boot together after a nasty tumble on the ski jump. It wasn't the bloody face that resulted from that fall, nor the altitude, nor the wax on his cross country skis. Todd Lodwick, 25, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., doesn't blame anything or anyone for his seventh-place finish in Sunday's Nordic combined event. Actually, he's quite happy with...
...always figured he was average. But having some authority put a number on it is a whole different ball of wax. Besides, since when was the 40th percentile average? That means 60 percent of kids who take this test do better than he did. For a while we started referring to him, when he wasn't around, as "Dumbo," or "the Brainiac." Our friends, whose kids got somewhere in the 80s, all assured us the test didn't mean a thing, except that he's not going to that fancy preschool. But once someone has come out and said...
Yale (5-10-2, 5-5-2) began the game’s scoring in the first period, jumping out to a 1-0 lead on a goal scored by sophomore forward Mike Klema and assisted by junior forwards Evan Wax and sophomore Ryan Steeves...
...Brit of love-ins and “Imagine.” But, qualified or not, I jumped in. We set out to develop a bigger, better magazine, with more and longer stories and a splashier design. We did paste-up back then by hand, with X-acto knives, waxed type and blue-gridded layout boards. We worked in what can only be described as a cave off the newspaper’s paste-up room. I remember cold, cracked, concrete walls, leaky pipes, and a damp vegetable odor that mingled with the pervasive smells of ink, hot wax...
...notion of solidarity by placing the students above the workers as their “saviors,” a role which the PSLM actively decries. Moreover, he explains that a common media angle would be to use the PSLM actions as a nostalgic trigger for the journalist to wax lyrical on “the good old days of protest”: the baby boomer sixties. “They would say, ‘isn’t this great, we have such a great future ahead of us if these students are the leaders of the future?...