Word: quivering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...archery"--he believes in a brand of philosophical Buddhism, a surprising pursuit for a French-Canadian Catholic raised in Maine. "Success has nothing to do with sticking an arrow into the bull's-eye," he says. "It's all about practice--practicing taking the arrow out of the quiver, practicing notching the string. When you have worked at the process for years, the arrow hits the target naturally. Fishing, climbing, selling, it's all the same...
...father says, emerging from the house. And so are Jesse's two brothers, Lim adds with regret. Jesse, outed as a tough guy, tells all to the cops, a quiver in his throat. If he goes to jail instead of going on the Mormon mission abroad that he's been counting on, Lim says, it's his own fault. "I sure wish I understood what this Straight Edge was all about...
...Olympic-trials semifinals to be held later this month. If she makes the top eight, she'll move on to the finals. Davis took up the sport only about two years ago, after watching the 1996 Games on TV, but she proved a quick study with the quiver. Now she's practicing six days a week, five hours a day. Her chances of making the team are slim, but if she does, we know she can be counted on to deliver an emotional acceptance speech and wear something fabulous...
Last week, when he again stepped up to a pulpit, this time to eulogize his nephew behind the closed doors of the Church of St. Thomas More in New York City, we could not hear the quiver in his voice. And we didn't have to. It was there in the practiced cadences, the defiant wit, the stubborn Catholicism that insists on seeing all the way to the gates of heaven. "He and his bride have gone to be with his mother and father, where there will never be an end to love," Kennedy said. And he promised that this...
...understand how this promising future might come to pass, it pays to review a little history. Back in the old days--which is to say just a few decades ago--the process of discovering a new drug was a lot like shooting a quiver of arrows into the air and then running around to see what they hit. Occasionally scientists would get lucky, as Fleming did in 1928, but most of their efforts were wasted...