Word: wearings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...felt like if we kept playing our pressure defense, we thought that maybe we could wear them down—and I thought that certainly is what happened in the second half,” Amaker said...
...actually wear pants while doing the news? - Curtis Ohl, Escondido, Calif. I choose to. I know colleagues - and I'm not going to use any coy initials here, Al Roker - I know people in the industry who don't: Garrison Keillor. I don't celebrate that. I think it's a tawdry trick, Matt Lauer...
USAGE: "The birther movement may be premised on a fictional belief, but it is savvy: birthers now wear the term as a badge of honor, as if they were a persecuted minority." --Atlantic, JULY...
...common wisdom is that regular running or vigorous sport-playing during a person's youth subjects the joints to so much wear and tear that it increases his or her risk of developing osteoarthritis later in life. Research has suggested that may be at least partly true: in a study of about 5,000 women published in 1999, researchers found that women who actively participated in heavy physical sports in their teenage years or weight-bearing activities in middle age had a higher than average risk of developing osteoarthritis of the hip by age 50. (See the top 10 medical...
Together, the findings lend support to the theory that osteoarthritis, which affects nearly 20 million Americans, is caused mainly by genes and risk factors like obesity (obese men and women are at least four times as likely to become arthritic as their thinner peers), rather than daily exercise or wear and tear of joints. In fact, a "normally functioning joint can withstand and actually flourish under a lot of wear," says Fries. Because cartilage - the soft connective tissue that surrounds the bones in joints - does not have arteries that deliver blood, it relies on the pumping action generated by movement...