Word: whim
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...weeks watching several episodes of the show, studying the Family Feud database, which contains previously used questions, and, perhaps most importantly, picking uniforms. Some of the team’s members expressed concern for how little they know about Family Feud. “I applied totally on a whim. I can’t honestly say I’ve watch Family Feud much ever. But I know what it is. I’ve seen some episodes,” Jambaldorj said. Parilo said she felt a bit more prepared because she used to play the Family Feud...
...implemented in each city, allowing researchers to test controversial programs like compensating students for high test scores, a practice Fryer has tried to test in New York City since 2007.Fryer compared the way in which educational research is being conducted now to a doctor prescribing medication on a whim.“If the doctor said to you, ‘You have a cold; here are three pills my buddy in Charlotte uses and he says they work,’ you would run out and find another doctor,” Fryer said in an interview with...
...went to an all-girls school for high school? CD: All my life before Harvard, actually, yeah. 3. FM: Well then, besides the obvious allure of our strapping male population, what brought you to Harvard in the first place? CD: My older sister applied to Harvard on a whim and got in, and then off she went. She’d never been to America before. When I applied two years later, I hadn’t been to America before either, but at least I had her to guide me through the process. 4. FM: How did you prepare...
...Palin is not alone in seeing Russia as the provoker—not the provoked—as a country seeking to regain its former empire, to invade sovereign countries on a whim, to send a message to the world that it’s back...
...September afternoon, I followed a group of friends down Arrow Street on a whim. Little did I know how familiar that walk would become...