Word: wiles
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Thankfully for the true studiers, though, the café has created a black hole of productivity where social types and procrastinators have met to wile away the hours. To my knowledge, there have been no screams, no trapeze artists, and no comedy groups climbing the reading room walls during the fall semester. The third floor reading room—dare I say it—has become boring. Should the café receive all the credit? Who knows. But for some reason, library shenanigans—such as last spring’s impromptu 3 a.m. dance party?...
...they go right, you never see them. They have to go wrong. I'm pretty proud of the one in the movie where I ride a rocket like Wile E. Coyote and it explodes. A foot-long rod shot out of the side. If it had been four inches to the right it would have gone through...
...bowl of the national dish “pho bò,” or beef noodle soup. Look around the café and you might notice something odd: almost every patron is male and almost every server is female. Go outside and the story is similar. While men wile away the days idling over iced coffee, women toil in the paddies, planting rice, gathering it, and then manning stalls to sell it at market. Holding all top political and business jobs, men run the show—women are merely the servile hard workers.Not so for the lone female...
...even Wile E. Coyote can run on thin air. While pursuing his winged prey, Wile E. would always end up running off the edge of a cliff. But he wouldn’t fall right away. Instead, his animators usually drew the coyote continuing to run in the air. After a few gravity-defying moments, Wile E. would slow down and take a look around. Realizing that he had left the cliff (and a laughing Roadrunner) far behind, he would plummet to earth...
...rapper. On the single “God’s Work,” Murs raps about paying off his rent, his car and his gas money. The chorus features one of his few Slug-like moments: “I work hard / goddamn hard / so I can wile out every weekend and buy drinks...