Word: flashes
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...furious pace, and those who were skillful at it became babe magnets, often securing dates with neighborhood sweethearts. My skinny body and quick reflexes made me a popular choice for serious teams and consequently a hot item on the street, until Daniel Block walked into the picture. "Flash," as they started calling him, was a 16-year-old French Jew whose father taught painting at my high school. Though Daniel concealed being a Jew, he was boisterous about being the best ballon chasseur player and about having persuaded May Qudsi to let him peek at her underpants behind closed doors...
...embarrassment. It amounts to multiple taxation on enterprise and hard-earned savings. We get taxed when we earn. We get taxed when we spend. We should not get taxed when we save. The estate tax was instituted in part to help fund World War I. News flash: the war is over. We won. Peace is at hand, and we have a budget surplus...
...that his tournament performance would get worse before it got better. Both men were aware of how such an apparent slump would be depicted by some golf commentators and fellow pros jealous of Woods' early success and fame. The Masters was a fluke, they would say; Woods was a flash in the pan. But Woods didn't hesitate. He and Harmon went to work in a kaizen sequence of 1) pounding hundreds of practice balls, 2) reviewing tapes of the swing, and 3) repeating both the above...
...Flash forward. In the new film The Replacements, union members are portrayed as rich, uncaring, racist, sucker-punch-throwing goons. And the nonunion fellows who take the strikers' jobs--once they were called scabs--are ordinary Joes who are there not for the money but for the love of a job well done...
...names, sure to attract teenagers everywhere, don't stop at Gayheart or Gellar. The loveable Eric Stoltz, last seen skulking through Jerry Maguire's bachelor party while holding up a large, dripping bottle of Jack Daniels, will also flash his ingratiating smile across screen...