Word: whaled
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...hammer-and-anvil strategy. Friendly Afghans, assisted by U.S. special forces, would flush the enemy from the north and northwest toward three exits of the Shah-i-Kot valley, where American troops waited. To the south, battle positions Heather and Ginger were divided by a hill christened the Whale, while to the east, battle position Eve guarded escape routes over the high mountains to Pakistan. But after two days of fierce combat, the al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters were still in place; one American had already been killed...
...government's 1.1% prediction and that it's probably higher because of trick accounting. He won't say where he would wield the ax but claims he will be tough on the state-funded institutions that grow around Portuguese governments like suckerfish around the mouth of a whale. "There were 130 of these six years ago," he says. "The Guterres government added another 78. Most are to give jobs to the boys...
...don’t mean that you ate too much during intersession. But theses, like baby whales, have a very long gestation term. And everyone knows that you’ve been sitting on the nest all year long. So you start to feel that whatever comes out in the end sure as hell better be a whale. The prospect of anything less seems disastrous, and it paralyzes your capacity for work...
That got me to thinking that many of you, too, might have pregnant whale syndrome...
...should realize what whale and human mothers have known for years: whatever you produce will be good enough, just because it’s yours. And unless you want to do Ph.D. work in your current field—a decision that many of my colleagues would recommend only after you’ve been rejected by the French Foreign Legion—your thesis grade will have virtually no impact on the rest of your life. Just get it done...