Word: squinting
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...wins or loses. You drop the ball; you pick it up. Once you've got the basics down, it doesn't matter if you bobble a ball or two, or if you can't peg it as far as you once could, or if you have to stare and squint to pick...
...over" to signal the end of the shift, we drive around the block. At a stoplight, another squad car bumps into the back of our car, causing us both to turn around. The officers in the other car jokingly turn on the take-downs, and we squint as they pull alongside laughing...
...when you link a fantasy culture to the wondrous American inventory of guns, you may now and then get a little terrorist. Guns fire vicious daydreams into the actual. Squint and point, and one magic trigger-finger's twitch, the merest spasm of impulse, may send the world into mayhem. That is a power so seductive that it might even have a little Satan...
...trackless wilderness. Of course, he never does. He has to drive the kids to soccer practice. But the unused capacity hums beneath the pedals at his feet and feeds the fantasy. Watch him roar past you on the road, and see the set of his jaw and the squint of his eye. This is not some corporate paper pusher at the wheel; this is no sensitive dad who does the laundry. This is Patton leading the Third Army. This is Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier. Disrupt his fantasy at your peril. "There is a real illusion of anonymity combined...
Kohl can hardly say no to political fudging, even though it was Germany that insisted on the 3% rule in the first place. For him, the creation of the monetary union and a more integrated E.U. is the essential goal, so he need not squint too hard at the technicalities. Not so the grumbling German people, who still shiver at the memory of the hyperinflation that wiped out the nation's savings in 1923. Germans put great store in a strong, reliable currency and are not thrilled at the prospect of giving up their beloved mark. If they...