Word: endingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...many places where she'd waited tables. "I loved it, both because it was immediately gratifying and because I was mercenary," she says. "I was older and a woman, and there are never enough good pastry chefs. The job has the impression of being easy, so women traditionally end up there. The way I see it, you're responsible for one-third of the meal...
...also been a long time coming. Impressive as the Hale telescope was for its day, it represented a technological dead end. The Hale, like its smaller predecessors, was powered by a mirror that's essentially a huge hockey puck of glass ground into a concave, light-focusing curve on one face and coated with reflective metal. To keep from sagging under its own weight and distorting the curve, the mirror had to be a bulky 26 in. thick, and it weighed 20 tons. That enormous heft called for an even more massive support structure to hold the whole thing...
...extreme caution in removing staples from her brown-paper skirt pattern. "I want to quit right now," Venus says, stamping her foot. Just then instructor Mariella Adrian, standing at the front of the small class, yells, "If you're sloppy in the beginning, it will be sloppy in the end, and all the blame will be with you." Venus freezes. Serena puts down the scissors. For tennis players whose own father rooted against them at matches to toughen them for competition, this is a surprisingly ineffective teaching method...
Toward the end of the four-hour class, the instructor is reviewing for next week's midterm, and Serena, without looking at her meticulous notes, is correctly giving most of the answers. When the teacher announces that the test will be multiple choice, Venus and Serena, showing they are worthy and true students, look at each other, pump their fists and yell...
...TREATMENT FOR SEVERELY INJURED PLAYERS Imagine how much less enthralling Homer's Iliad would be if impaled Trojans were carted off the battlefield on comfy stretchers. Leave the bodies on the field--play over them. At least consider employing primitive on-field-treatment modalities. The home team's tight end is writhing in pain with a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Lose the leg and get him back in that huddle. Imagine the excitement when the miked referee signals with a hacking, amputating motion, "It's comin...