Word: whim
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...encouraged to attend practices to see what the skaters can do. When they start judging, however, they reserve their highest marks for whoever they think will be the best skater--dampening prospects for early performers. Tricky jumps and graceful lines are still crucial, but in skating, luck and whim may carry...
Person of the Week CHOSEN ONE Tapped to head the six-month interim Afghan government, ethnic Pashtun Hamid Karzai quickly promised amnesty to rank-and-file Taliban, and Western justice for top leaders and foreign fighters. But the rickety Bonn agreement could collapse at the whim of rogue warlords...
...STORES Outside, windows reflect a new mood, above; inside, it's a buyer's market as some chains quietly allow haggling, stores increase sale goods 15% and one Manhattan boutique offers free massage. Even chilly Bergdorf Goodman is playing to whim--and wallet--with free drinks, TVs airing sports and its first ever Santa Claus...
...totally converted domestic. I can see how the drudgery of a daily obligation to put food on the table for a family would chip away at even the most Martha-esque culinary good cheer. But my experience in meal preparation so far, limited to my own whim and the cushion of a meal plan in times of laziness, is the most unpredictably good thing in my life right now. I don’t really know what that means, but every time I use the word parboil in a conversation (more frequently than one might guess) I am pleasantly surprised...
...fascinating to see what others put, stuff I would never have chosen myself, like filling the bag with water, or Mighty Morphin Power Rangers underwear, for example. It was really interesting to see what other people found stimulating, like what they chose on a fancy almost, or a whim; it may have been just a momentary decision to put something...