Word: felling
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...habit of bashing business and businessmen in an almost recreational way. (At one point he blithely equates capitalism with sexism and racism.) But even his smugness has a certain hilarious pungency. He records the time in London toward the end of the war when a V-1 bomb fell close by; everyone else in his office fell to the floor, but as a coworker's journal noted, "Arthur... boldly looked out the window." Mr. Toad was brave...
...blowouts and a pair of nail-biters later, the five-way logjam atop the Ivy League football standings ended. Harvard, Yale, Penn, and Cornell remain tied for first with 3-1 records, while Princeton fell...
...senior security officers, but finally they let me through. This was 4 a.m. I felt tired. For some hours, I felt very bad and very tired. But I overcame it. The result was that when we flew back in the afternoon, I don't remember even the takeoff. I fell asleep immediately on the plane, and they could barely wake me up when we landed at Ben Gurion [airport near Tel Aviv]. But it was only one hour...
That fearlessness has served her well. When director John Herzfeld was auditioning actresses for 2 Days, he asked them to sit and read a scene in which Helga was shot. But Theron unexpectedly fell to the floor and crawled across the room as she read her lines; when she died, a star was born. In Bagger Vance, as a steel magnolia rekindling sparks with the lover who once abandoned her (Damon), she bites bravely into the hammiest of lines--"Now I'm supposed to run inta ya ahms and melt like buttah on a hot muffin?"--and chews so deftly...
Inside the center, it was even worse. "The whole world fell apart," said an FAA employee on duty. First, the system started rebooting, distorting the critical information the radars displayed. When no quick fix could be found, the controllers who direct the almost 7,000 flights a day that flow through the airspace were switched to the emergency system. Some of them were not up to speed on that version, though, and they became confused and started yelling, "The backup system isn't working!" The problem was caused by what an agency spokesman called a glitch in the software--installed...