Word: shorting
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...explains. Edwin made her lift weights for the first time. And swim. She started to work muscles she didn't know she had. She wasn't fit, at least not in a way elite athletes understand the term. Edwin had her pounding out 300-meter sprints with cruelly short rests in between. In self-defense, her body began to grow. A high-protein, high-carbohydrate diet combined with hard training stacked 11 kg of muscle onto a body that had weighed just 45 kg. "Now I am like a sprinter," she says proudly. And she is, with long, sinewy legs...
Wahlberg's critical errors, though, didn't happen until the third quarter. Setting back at his own 20, he felt the oncoming Holy Cross pass rush instinctively went to his short, safe option. However, his dump-off pass went straight into the hands of Crusader linebacker Luke Sinkhorn, who then went right into the end zone...
Though the drive stalled in the red zone, Rose clearly had poise in the pocket. On third-and-6 from the Holy Cross 18, he hit sophomore Dan Farley on a three-yard out pattern. Farley fell short of the first down, but he was the third or fourth option and Rose had the presence to try and make something happen, and at least give the field goal kicker a chance...
...House. Life inside the building in those years was often chaotic, with job seekers, war contractors and distraught parents allowed to crowd in to seek time with Lincoln. The public could assemble too beneath the north portico whenever startling war news, good or bad, arrived. Lincoln often used a short, candle-lighted passageway from the upstairs quarters to a window over the entrance. There he would stand and talk to the people on the drive below. That small space is still reverently preserved...
...starkest evidence that we are living on short rations came in recent days with the events of Ratgate. Journalists who should have known better - and would have, if there were any controlling grown-up authority on the National Desk, any intelligent superego left to say, "Spike it, it's a phony" - worked themselves into a state about the idea that the Bush people had commissioned a campaign ad containing the word "RATS," subliminally flashed on the screen in the midst of a discussion of "bureaucRATS" or? "DemocRATS."? The diabolical idea (a brainwashing trick that the GOP's mind-control people...