Word: steams
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...people can rev up a whole lot of steam and enthusiasm, we’ll get a lot of new courses. If people say, ‘I’m tired of thinking about this, I don’t have time,’ we won’t,” Jayne Professor of Government Jennifer L. Hochschild said...
...into the third-highest-grossing documentary of all time; it has earned some $45 million so far. With the film up for two Oscars this month and Gore a nominee for this year's Nobel Peace Prize for mobilizing a worldwide crusade, the Al juggernaut just keeps picking up steam...
...young man called Eugene Morris Jerome bounds into his Brooklyn family home, shaking with cold, and tells his grandfather an impromptu joke about the weather: "I saw a man kissing his wife on the corner, and they got stuck to each other. Mr. Jacobs, the tailor, is blowing hot steam on them." His grandfather, as always, sees nothing funny in Eugene's whimsy. Weeks later, Eugene moves out to start a new life as a comedy writer for network radio in Manhattan. His grandfather, ever wary of affection, wonders whether he will have to endure a parting embrace. Eugene replies...
...Since her unlikely candidacy started gaining steam last year, Royal has had a penchant for saying almost nothing on traditional campaign topics, but launching missiles of iconoclasm where least expected. Earlier this week, she managed the difficult trick of enraging even Canada, when she offered an endorsement of what she called "the liberty and sovereignty of Quebec" after meeting with the head of the separatist Parti Québecois. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper responded with a brusque reminder that meddling in domestic affairs was "inappropriate for a foreign leader," and Sarkozy's camp could hardly contain its tut-tutting...
...more intimacy, then retreat to the resort's traditional Hammam (Turkish bath). This beautiful, warm sanctuary, with its intricate mosaics and splendid dome, is a place where the outside world melts away. I chose the Ritual treatment, where I disrobed and was bathed by my therapist before entering the steam room. My body was then plastered in mint-scented clay and my face smeared with honey that smelled so sweet I was tempted to taste it. Know going in that the word massage is derived from the Arabic mass (gentle touch). After a second bathing, as aromatic oil is rubbed...