Word: whacks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...appeal to Carnarvon, too." When they open the paper tomorrow, the residents of neither place will sense the skilled flurry that produced it. Words are moving at high speed among the subs now. Stutchbury and Mitchell have left; barring any major changes, it's now the backbench's call. "Whack it through, mate," shouts Dore. Just before second deadline he notices a name spelled inconsistently in a story. "Sorry to wake you," he says to the reporter he's rung at 11 p.m. As final deadline advances, the newsroom is all silent concentration. Cleaners come and go. While the third...
...authors think the same phenomenon may hold true for humans: early on, we learn to sense how calorie-packed a food is--by its sweetness and viscosity, for example--which automatically keeps us from overindulging. But eating unnaturally sweetened, low-calorie foods may throw our instinct out of whack...
...range you're willing to consider--some younger men love older women. Have a friend help you write your profile and pick your picture. Beware: online descriptions are often inflated, and some men set arbitrary age limits that become irrelevant once you meet. Some women feel compelled to whack a few years off their age just to get past those filters--a practicality that can be dicey. My suggestion: go ahead, but be sure to let the man know as soon as you meet him--and let him know...
...After Tomorrow could just as well have been called The Even More Perfect Storm. The premise is this: Global warming has thrown Earth's delicate climate grotesquely out of whack. Sinuously swaying tornadoes chew through the HOLLYWOOD sign in California. Killer hail bops Japanese commuters on the head. New York City is spectacularly swamped by a tidal wave and then snap-frozen at --150°F by a killer blizzard. (That must mean it's officially O.K. to destroy New York City in movies again.) Somewhere in there Dennis Quaid, as an implausibly hunky paleoclimatologist, has to rescue Gyllenhaal...
Colgan acknowledges Massino's stolid charisma, his use of power as an instrument of fear. "If Joey said something, people jumped. They wanted to be endeared to Joey," he says. "If they didn't do what he said, he'd whack them. And if he even thought you were an informant, he'd have you killed." Colgan managed to persuade Ray Wean--a Bonanno man so huge that when Colgan once arrested him, he couldn't get the cuffs around Wean's thick wrists--to be an undercover informant and later testify for the prosecution at Massino's '87 trial...