Word: burnt
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...Kids who are burnt out by slow-moving games like soccer and baseball love the high energy and scoring...
...people has the condition and that there are nearly as many types of synesthesia as there are permutations of the senses. While synesthetic responses are usually as unique as fingerprints, the condition runs in families. Nabokov, for example, for whom the letter b evoked the color burnt sienna, and t, pistachio green, often argued with his equally synesthetic mother about the true colors of the alphabet...
...what she calls "mind/body sports," like yoga, tai chi and chi gong. She's now at work on the fourth collection of the series, called Nuala. The clothes are mostly cotton, though some are microfibers, and are produced in muted, earthy colors such as gray, black, ivory and burnt pumpkin. Some you'd wear in class, some you'd wear to and from...
...driving home from dinner with friends several weeks ago when she decided to call a friend on her Sprint PCS portable cell phone. She was still dialing as she went through an intersection and plowed into a parked Ford Explorer, totaling her own Acura Integra. While suffering only a burnt lip after the air bag exploded in her face, Blue admits to being plenty embarrassed. "I know better than to dial and drive," she insists...
...setting ambushes along the wadi where the attack was expected. We were lying there in the desert all night with these special forces guys when suddenly we hear these B-52's flying high overhead. They fly over, and then we feel the ground shaking. And the smell of burnt flesh wafts down the wadi. And that's it, the assault on Khafji is repulsed, the entire attack wiped out by carpet bombing...