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No harm done — desert dust shakes off so easily.Artemio!
Significantly, his Tell never shakes off a vaguely troubled air.
Liufau shakes off injury, leads No. 15 Colorado past UCLA BOULDER, Colo.
With its eye toward moving on, "Judged" shakes off some of the cobwebs.
That malaise only shakes off once the guys start taking arms against their troubles.
Tristan Thompson shakes off his pregame jitters by blasting Taylor Swift in his headphones.
"No," Harden shakes off my question about whether this year's roster is thin in any one area.
It's called stepping out, and it happens once the city shakes off its barrenness and thaws out.
The film shakes off superhero clichés, our critic writes, with touches of screwball comedy and romantic adventure.
A Red Bar pigeon shakes off excess water after enjoying a sprinkler on a 100-degree summer day.
That is, it seems, the point — but the novel never quite shakes off the ickiness of what it's doing.
Scott shakes off his lunch with Kris and shows up at Khloé's house to invite her to his birthday party.
"We were pretty confident that he shakes off those kinds of things," said Sharks forward Timo Meier, according to ESPN.
Sofman, CEO of robotics company Anki, chuckles as the it shakes off the rust of sleep and ambles off its charging cradle.
The movement shakes off into the frigidity of space the vast internal heat that the planet has stored since its violent formation.
"Radicals in Miniature" works best when Mr. Gordon shakes off intellectual notions and formal concerns and quietly sings a snatch of disco.
Even if he shakes off that allegation, which he denies, a court appearance of the sort he has avoided thus far seems inevitable.
The college dropout or young corporate drone shakes off conventional expectations to launch a new business with a ragtag team of fellow 20-somethings.
A few Zip Codes over, Bushwick shakes off the late-winter gloom and a half decade of development to restore a bit of disorder.
Bernstein shakes off the praise, turning instead to Maxwell Perkins (Colin Firth), the famous editor of authors like Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
And if Griffin shakes off the young starters offered up from Los Angeles, a third or fourth team might be needed for a deal to work.
Once a Dutch "The Rite of Spring" (Exton) shakes off its lugubrious beginning, the violence that ensues is notable for the control with which it is dispatched.
The film "briskly shakes off blockbuster branding imperatives and allows itself to be something relatively rare in the modern superhero cosmos," A.O. Scott wrote in The Times.
The moment they arrive at the Bavarian-style hamlet, she shakes off her previous concerns and giddily dives right into all the pageantry of the fastnacht festivities.
He's possessed of a high and keening voice that can seem to reach to the stars, but never shakes off the dust and grime of the earth.
Once the sector shakes off the froth of the Trump rally, he believes stocks again will turn higher and even could end the year ahead of current levels.
The one that stops trying to be perceived as fair by Trumpian critics whose beef is with journalism itself, and shakes off the old obsession with political neutrality?
In reverse, however, if Apple shakes off what investors could read as a short-term disruption to production and sales, other stocks could maintain short-term price integrity.
In this turbulent era, there's almost a nostalgic appeal to the grifter, who so glibly shakes off the shackles of identity and rejects the raw deal of birth.
But once GLOW shakes off the exposition, settles into its own rhythm, and allows its excellent cast to shine, man, can the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling be fun.
Saoudi shakes off a piss in the dustbin, then turns and applies make-up in a steamy mirror with one hand, taking healthy swigs of booze with the other.
All three teams should fall at least partway back to earth this week as the N.F.L. shakes off its rust and starts to establish a pecking order among contenders.
They've run it sloppy over the past couple weeks, but once the rust shakes off there's simply no way any team in the league will be able to consistently stop them.
"Wonder Woman," directed by Patty Jenkins from a script by Allan Heinberg, briskly shakes off blockbuster branding imperatives and allows itself to be something relatively rare in the modern superhero cosmos.
The move comes as BP gradually shakes off the impact of the deadly 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, known as Macondo, that cost it over $63 billion in clean-up costs and penalties.
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Browning acknowledges how downright alarming the footage of the Daedelus rig appears, but shakes off any notion that he's actually in danger at any point during the three-and-a-half minute package.
It has the usual sand bags on each corner so it doesn't blow away, and because it's so lightweight, the wind shakes off the sand for you, unlike a more traditional beach blanket.
UCLA shakes off Cal State Bakersfield A 210-213 run to open the second half distanced UCLA from Cal State Bakersfield in a 210-66 victory Wednesday night at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles.
It's part western, part neo-noir, the kind of movie in which a stranger steps from the shadows and shakes off his isolation and existential burden long enough to right whatever wrong needs righting.
Directed by Nahnatchka Khan, the showrunner of the sharp ABC comedy "Fresh Off the Boat" (which Park stars in and Wong used to write for), "Always Be My Maybe" never shakes off those sitcom shackles.
"It's part western, part neo-noir, the kind of movie in which a stranger steps from the shadows and shakes off his isolation and existential burden long enough to right whatever wrong needs righting," she says.
Factories are slowly restarting in China, as the country shakes off the virus that began on its shores, but the outbreak in the United States and Europe continues to worsen, with schools, restaurants, offices and other Western businesses now closing.
A well-stocked roster does not simply fulfill its potential; it gets run through a wringer of inevitable setbacks, shakes off suspensions and injuries and infighting, and emerges having gained both blemishes and identity, the preferred catchall of television analysts nationwide.
The aforementioned greatest soccer player of all time then returns to the pitch, and Pelé shakes off an arm injury—expert soccer fans will note that you do not technically need two functioning arms to play soccer—to score the game-tying golazo.
As the city shakes off decades of Soviet rule and reinvents itself again, developers have bent once-tight planning rules and a building boom is underway - one that is changing the face of the city and jeopardizing the open areas where Georgians meet.
But once the novel shakes off its labored start, "Zero K" reminds us of Mr. DeLillo's almost Day-Glo powers as a writer and his understanding of the strange, contorted shapes that eternal human concerns (with mortality and time) can take in the new millennium.
Borg Shakes Off Broken Angle, Soundly Beats Smolka Despite reporting a broken ankle to his corner in between the second and third round of his main card opener against Louis Smolka, Ray Borg look completely dominant on route to a unanimous decision over the Hawaiian.
Mr. Ratmansky grew up in Soviet Russia, but his productions (he also staged "The Sleeping Beauty" for Ballet Theatre in 2015) show a passion to establish a view of Petipa that shakes off the many stylistic changes of the Soviet era: filigree footwork, vividly communicative mime, dramatic coherence underlying the dance.
YELLEN SHAKES OFF QUESTION ABOUT TRUMP-CAUSED CRISIS: Yellen dodged a question Monday on whether the election of Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE as president could destroy the global economy.
Alabama defeated Virginia Tech 34-24 and ultimately went on to win the national championship.The Associated Press. "Alabama shakes off kick return, turnovers to overcome Virginia Tech", ESPN.com. September 5, 2009.
But, the old cargo ship is blocked by a large fleet sent by Garer. Everybody thinks this is the end of road. Then, the old ship gears up suddenly and shakes off the battleships at tremendous speed! EPISODE #16.
The pipeline was said to be important for the de facto independence of South Ossetia, because it "shakes off the last levers exerted by its unfriendly neighbour". The Georgian foreign ministry has strongly protested against the launch of the new pipeline.
During Living Singles first season, it consistently had higher ratings than Martin, which aired immediately before it, and it quickly became the fourth highest-rated show aired on Fox.Braxton, Greg (February 6, 1994). "'Living Single' Shakes Off Criticism". Los Angeles Times.
In the years between the end of the Joe/Cobra conflict and its resurgence, Billy shakes off his brainwashing, but is left unhinged. He hides in Scotland, but is tracked down by Spirit and Kamakura, Snake Eyes' apprentice, to help rescue Snake Eyes and Scarlett.
Charlie expresses concern for her grandmother. She shakes off her illness but Charlie says she understands what she's going through. Charlie apologizes for her mother and says to her grandmother, "you've been so generous, I didn't want to ask for more". CeCe agrees to release the funds the next day.
Because of this, the dome itself also has an aerodynamic design to resist strong winds and heavy snowfall. Buildup of snow on the roof is prevented by circulating warm air between the 2 Teflon-coated membranes, this shakes off the snow and allows the stadium to be used in all weathers.
As the creatures' power drains away, Nicholas and the spirit briefly regain control. After Kim and Jason reach out to him, Nicholas finally realizes his misdeeds and shakes off the spirit's influence. He closes the book, which Secret Bear then locks. Having saved himself, the park, and the world, Nicholas thanks the group.
Sven Kramer (center) won gold at the 5000 m in Sochi. In preparation for the Winter Olympics, Kramer chose not to compete in the European allround championships. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, Kramer won gold at the 5000 m with an Olympic record of 6:10.76.Paul Newberry, "Kramer shakes off pressure, wins another 5000 gold", The Washington Post, 2014.
She meets Al Rossi, a mailman ("I'm in the government"). Like the other regulars, Al shakes off the tedium and the fear of daily life by dancing, and he spins Bea through cha-cha, merengue, waltz and, finally, a foxtrot. Bea hasn't felt this way in years. Al asks to drive her home, but Bea demurs; she goes home happy, however, and proud.
Realising that people perceive him as a bit of a jerk, he returns to his brother's house and his niece takes him into her world where he re-discovers himself and the poet within. Eventually he visits the site where the accident happened. He places a remembrance bouquet and shakes off the memories, finally liberating himself. He returns to his wife newly invigorated, happy about his future.
Now on his own, Chow shakes off his police pursuers at an MTR station by boarding a departing train. While getting the bag with the guns, he notices Fu at the bowling alley. As he leaves the building, the police arrive. Chow manages to escape by jumping from a window and is picked up at street level by Fu who's approaching in a car.
After the ends have finished soaking, it is important that the twirler shakes off any excess liquid. Finally, the ends of the baton can be set on fire using a lighter. After the twirler has finished performing, the flames can be put out through tossing the baton very fast and hard or by placing it in a fire blanket. Baton twirling requires skillful coordination and extraordinary control of the human body.
She shoos George out of the house and her hives comes under control. The following day, Bree visits her therapist Dr. Goldfine, who advises her that her sudden break-outs occur because she still feels that she is married. Bree shakes off the suggestion but knows deep down that it is true. She decides that she will have to overcome this since she would like to continue seeing George.
She also shocks him when she explains that in fact he is 100% Puerto Rican himself, and warns him that her agency is everywhere and can be quite ruthless. He leaves in the middle of the night, shakes off a police tail, ends up at his apartment, where he finds Chota threatening to rape and murder Soto. Together, they disarm and kill Chota. Desperate, they seek out Garboil's friend, the writer Ed Vega.
The Horizon Lab scientists manage to jury-rig a counter-frequency, restoring Peter's Spider-Sense to an enhanced level (due to Shang-Chi's kung fu training being merged to his reflexes). Now fully empowered, Peter bests Tarantula, drowning him in a pool of serum. Tarantula emerges from the pool with his mutation gone and his clone degeneration reversed. The now healthy Kaine shakes off Spider Queen's mind control and offers to help Peter.
Homer remarks that he seems fine, and Krusty replies, "This ain't makeup." In "Bart the Fink", he abandons an idea to sail away with a new identity and swims towards shore, leaving a trail of yellow makeup in his wake and his natural white face underneath. On shore, he shakes off his black hair, revealing his natural green clown hair, and removes his normal-looking fake nose to reveal his natural red bulbous clown nose underneath.
Refusing to give a cent, the boy beagle heads toward the door. Before he could do so, however, he is nabbed by the robotic cash register that shakes off every single coin he has. The third customer is a big bear who orders a ham sandwich. Oswald cracks an egg which turns into a chick and cools itself and while he is in the kitchen, the bear starts flirting the girl beagle, and Oswald is aware of it.
Warren increasingly treats the others as his lackeys, reserving to himself the use of whatever devices they make or steal. In "Dead Things" Warren hypnotizes his former girlfriend Katrina to be his sex slave, and kills her when she shakes off his control. Though Andrew and Jonathan are horrified by Katrina's murder, Warren coerces them into helping him frame Buffy for the crime. The Trio then use time-distorting demons to convince Buffy that she killed Katrina.
Eminem shakes off the remark and attempts to answer the question originally posed to him by the reporter when Triumph once again implies Eminem has sexual relationships with men: "Do you kiss 50 Cent with that mouth?" Eminem swiftly punches Triumph and wrestles several security guards to the ground. In the scuffle, as Eminem appears to be trying to choke Triumph, Triumph shouts out "I'm not your wife!" (alluding to Eminem's troubled relationship with his daughter's mother, Kim).
Depending on the harshness of winters, this task needed to be repeated whenever frost levels churned new stones into soil surfaces. Thus, land with many fieldstones was and is considered marginal and is assessed for tax purposes well below land that is considered stone-free. In mechanized agriculture, fieldstone is usually removed by a tractor attachment called a rock picker. A chain-driven wheel rotates a graded scoop, picking surface rocks from the soil, and shakes off excess soil.
When he awakens from his daze in a hospital, Dave learns from Gomez that his drink had been laced with LSD. Elrod drunkenly takes a boat out on the Bayou with Kelly, calling Dave when the boat engines get caught in gill nets. Dave gives Kelly his coat, as it is pouring rain, and a mysterious gunman shoots her in the chest, mistaking her for him. General Hood offers advice again and Dave shakes off the feelings of guilt over Kelly's death.
"Mary J. Blige, Larry Carlton, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds", LA Weekly, Los Angeles, 10 November 2011, Retrieved on 26 January 2020."Singer Lucy Woodward Shakes Off The Musical Shackles of Constraint", The Daily Times, Knoxville, 15 February 2017, Retrieved on 26 January 2020. Woodward wrote much of the album with Dan Petty and Michelle Lewis, saying that she had been inspired by the music of Peggy Lee and Django Reinhardt. The album also received comparisons to Dusty Springfield and Brill Building.
Alexander committed to Alabama in 1993 and was redshirted that fall. He played four years of college football for the Crimson Tide from 1994 to 1997.Keeping Faith: Curtis Alexander ready to run for BamaTide's Alexander hoping, praying for an injury-free season in 1996Alexander Plays Well In Pressure SituationTide's other Alexander's turn to star: Curtis Alexander shakes off injuries to lead BamaAlexander Commits To Alabama As a senior in 1997, Alexander totaled 720 rushing yards, 133 receiving yards, and scored eight touchdowns.Alexander's XFL profile.
Meanwhile, Sue Snell, a deeply remorseful classmate, asks her handsome and popular boyfriend, Tommy Ross, to invite Carrie to prom. Carrie initially thinks the proposition is a prank, but he insists that it is genuine and she reluctantly accepts after being consoled by Miss Collins. Back at home, she begins to discover that she has the power of telekinesis as she shakes off her shyness. In spite of Margaret's cries of protest that Tommy is using her, Carrie puts on a flattering dress and hairstyle for the prom.
Meanwhile, maverick LAPD detective Harry Bosch, the main character in several earlier novels written by Connelly, is investigating Vincent's murder. Bosch, warning that Vincent's killer may come after Haller next, persuades the reluctant lawyer to cooperate in the ongoing murder investigation. Meanwhile, Haller shakes off the rust, and lingering self-doubts, as he prepares for the double-murder trial. Among the cases Haller takes on is that of a former surfing champion, Patrick, who, while addicted to painkillers after a surfing accident, has stolen a diamond necklace while at the home of a friend.
This is exactly what all previous iterations of Loki would have wanted most: attention, adoration, praise. Odin even proudly compares Loki to Thor and calls him "son", but Loki shakes off Odin's promises insisting that he's done taking "sides". Loki and Verity then survive the incursion,Loki: Agent of Asgard #16 and chase away the gods who sit above the Multiverse, who want Loki to surrender the stories of Asgard, which he is keeping in preservation. They also discover King Loki, another survivor of the incursions, and upon explaining that he understands King Loki's motivations.
He played one game at hooker.[Marsh shakes off injury, tipped to play ] Waikato Times, 29 April 2003 For most of the year he played for the North Harbour Tigers in the 2005 Bartercard Cup. He also played for the Barbarians from 2002 to 2009 playing a total of 13 games for the famous rugby club and in 2003 Robinson was a member of the Warriors team in the victories over England, Scotland and Wales. In 2003 he signed for Northampton in the English Premiership, and on 22 May 2008 he transferred to London Wasps.
Tell arts they have no soundness, But vary by esteeming; Tell > schools they want profoundness, And stand too much on seeming: If arts and > schools reply, Give arts and schools the lie. Tell faith it's fled the city; > Tell how the country erreth; Tell manhood shakes off pity And virtue least > preferreth: And if they do reply, Spare not to give the lie. So when thou > hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing-- Although to give the lie Deserves > no less than stabbing-- Stab at thee he that will, No stab the soul can > kill.
Hannibal goes for a vertical head shot with his Falcata, but Genghis shakes off the blow and slashes Hannibal across the thigh. Hannibal goes for a horizontal slash, but Genghis ducks under the sword and hits Hannibal's shield out of his hands. Tired and desperate, Hannibal deflects blows from the saber and goes for a thrust strike with the falcata, but it fails to pass through the steel lamellar armor. Enraged, Genghis counters with two consecutive head shots to Hannibal's brass helmet, severely denting it and knocking Hannibal dizzy.
Ax is clearly smitten. On the flight back, he silently contemplates for a moment the idea of running away with Estrid and leaving behind the difficult shades of gray of his life. He shakes off the reverie, and they return to the ship to plan for the morning's attack on the Visser. Ax later suddenly realizes that Estrid had made a joking reference to plintconarhythmic equations, which are employed in an incredibly complex bio-engineering field involving clear thought in n-dimensions, but uneasily writes it off as a figure of speech.
Teen Titans (vol. 3) #36 (July 2006) Retaining his age, though clean-shaven again, Dayton's Mento helmet is now red, and he wears a black costume with a yellow lightning bolt across it; this coloration of helmet and costume resembles his original look from the original incarnation of the Patrol. Seeing the truth about Dr. Niles Caulder (a.k.a. the Chief), who is trying to convince Kid Devil to join the Doom Patrol by telling him that his own teammates, the Titans, will always despise him as a freak, Dayton shakes off his addiction and finally removes the helmet.
The Id (an empathic manipulator), Sister Crystal (who possesses a hand that can turn anything into glass), Skin Talker (a man who makes hypnotic suggestions through the skin), and Ray Man (an illusion caster) initially cause trouble for all three. They eventually appear to splice Batman in half, turn Robin into glass, and Nightrunner into a cloth- like boneless structure. After a moment, Batman shakes off what is revealed as an illusion and rallies his allies, enabling them to take down the inmates. The three realize that the entire fight was being watched by the Son of Man.
Some students from a Progress Class in Liverpool are going on a trip to Conwy Castle, but they misbehave. Before the trip they leave they buy sweets and the deputy head disciplinarian teacher, Mr Briggs, joins them. On the journey, they make some stops: at a cafe, a zoo, the beach (Conwy Castle) and (afterwards) a fun fair. Whilst the children shoplift and generally make trouble, an older boy, Reilly hits on his young teacher, Susan, who shakes off his attentions by suggesting he turn his attention to the pretty young Linda, who had been trying it on with her own boyfriend, Colin.
A strange woman (the Yuki-onna of Japanese myth) appears out of nowhere and attempts to lure the last conscious man to his death - give in to the snow and the storm, she urges him on, into reverie, into sleep, into certain death. But finding some heart, deep within, he shakes off his stupor and her entreaties, to discover that the storm has abated, and that their camp is only a few feet away. The setting for this sequence was most likely inspired from Kurosawa's personal life, since he confessed to being "a devotee of mountain climbing".
Arnold begins "The Scholar Gipsy" in pastoral mode, invoking a shepherd and describing the beauties of a rural scene, with Oxford in the distance. He then repeats the gist of Glanvill's story, but extends it with an account of rumours that the scholar gipsy was again seen from time to time around Oxford. Arnold imagines him as a shadowy figure who can even now be glimpsed in the Berkshire and Oxfordshire countryside, "waiting for the spark from Heaven to fall",Line 120 and claims to have once seen him himself. He entertains a doubt as to the scholar gypsy's still being alive after two centuries, but then shakes off the thought.
The Spirit of Spring in the form of a faun dances through the countryside playing his panflute and melting the snow, heralding the end of winter and the beginning of spring. When his revitalizing influence reaches Pluto's doghouse, it causes mushrooms to magically sprout up under Pluto's chin, waking him from his winter slumber. The Spirit of Spring coaxes Pluto out of his doghouse; Pluto shakes off his blanket, takes a deep breath of fresh spring air and skips into the forest. He enjoys the scent of trees before stumbling into a bush, where he hears birdsong, drawing his attention to a couple of bluebirds courting.
He comes to again several hours later, it is dark but he can just make out his friend waiting in the gloom, soon to leave and walk into the trap that had been set. Still unable to speak he is helpless to warn Hugh; however, soon Princess Neit-akrit turns up and asks Hugh to help her make a posy from the flowers in the temple. She is able to manipulate Hugh's love for her to prevent him from going to his bride and being framed for the Pharaoh's murder. Mark shakes off the last effects of the drug, overcomes the priests who have come to finish him off, and escapes.
Hinton arrives at Times Square station, the designated meeting place. While waiting for the gang he enters a public bathroom (unknown to him) re-purposed as a sort of brothel and is forced into sex with a teenage prostitute, shakes off a homosexual and a young junkie offering sexual favors for money, travels back and forth on the shuttle to Grand Central and, overcome with an inexplicable hunger, eats incessantly. When he comes to an arcade, he plays a shootout game with a dummy sheriff, winning twice, reflecting his resentment of authority. Before he knows it, he has achieved everything he usually does with the gang, and wonders why he needs them.
Notre Dame de Paris had been banned in 1834. The work, a closet drama, depicts an unnamed pope falling asleep, and having a dream in which he participates in a pageant of scenes which represent generic situations in human history. Through a sequence of discussions and soliloquies, the Pope reevaluates his beliefs, and concludes by giving a speech in which he condemns war and capital punishment, endorses the Republican ideals of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, and, in instructing the people to love one another, asserts that he abandons Rome for Jerusalem and Caesar for Christ. The poem ends with an ironic envoi in which the Pope awakens and shakes off his momentary insight.
With the knowledge of the Brahman, asserts the text, one goes from darkness to perceiving a spectrum of colors and shakes off evil.Robert Hume, Chandogya Upanishad 8.13 - 8.15, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads, Oxford University Press, pages 273-274 This knowledge of Self is immortal, and the one who knows his own self joins the glory of the Brahman-knowers, the glory of Rajas (kings) and the glory of the people. The one who knows his soul, continues to study the Vedas and concentrates on his soul, who is harmless towards all living beings, who thus lives all his life, reaches the Brahma-world and does not return, states Chandogya Upanishad in its closing chapter.
As two Georgetown students wearing biblical clothing and long false beards held up a "Free Moses" sign, freshman center Moses Ayegba – ruled ineligible for Georgetown's first nine games because he had received an airline ticket to the United States from his native Nigeria from a non-family member – made his collegiate debut in the Appalachian State game, scoring two points. Against Loyola six days later, Austin Freeman and Hollis Thompson each scored 14 points, Henry Sims contributed 12, and Chris Wright added 11.Anonymous, "Georgetown follows first loss with rout of overmatched Appalachian State," Associated Press, December 12, 2010.espn.com Appalachian State vs. Georgetown – Box Score – December 12, 2010 – ESPNAnonymous, "Georgetown shakes off exam-week concerns, trounces Loyola of Maryland," Associated Press, December 18, 2010.espn.
The strong and dry wind lifted burning shakes off burning houses and quickly spread the fire. The fire was halted only when the northeasterly winds died down and were replaced by the cool, humid afternoon sea breeze. The fire lines were established at Hearst and Shattuck Avenues, where larger diameter water mains delivered a reliable water supply for firefighting. Building styles in North Berkeley changed dramatically after the 1923 fire, with stucco and tile roof homes largely, but not entirely, replacing the wood-sided and cedar- shaked construction styles popularized by the Berkeley Hillside Club before the fire. As a belated result of the fire, the City of Berkeley constructed a fire station in the hills at 2931 Shasta Road (at Queens Road) just below Grizzly Peak Blvd, in 1948.
Alex Abad-Santos, writing for Vox, listed "Cruel Summer" as one of his top-three best Lover tracks, writing that the song is an "aquatic robot bop" featuring "wobbly" synths. The Spinoff stated that Swift "absolutely pulls it off", comparing it to the Bananarama's 1984 hit of the same name. Writing for The Ringer, Justin Sayles praised the song as a "better rebuke of her personal drama than anything on her last album [Reputation]", and added that Swift "shakes off the bad vibes" with "Cruel Summer"; Sayles named it Swift's "most infectious song since that run of singles from 1989", and opined that song "sets the tone" for the "warmer, more inviting vibes" of Lover. Also calling it "infectious", Nick Levine of NME termed the track as a "brilliant pop song".
Cynthia Daventry, the heroine of the story, grows up in Argentina as the adopted daughter of Robert and Jane Daventry, an English couple. Unable to have children themselves, they had adopted Cynthia at the age of three from a foundling hospital where she had been left by her dissolute father, James Glanville, following her mother's death in an earthquake. Cynthia is unaware of her parentage, and is horrified when on her 17th birthday her natural father arrives unannounced to claim her, intending to force her into prostitution in Buenos Aires and live off the proceeds. The Daventrys flee back to England, where they live comfortably although Cynthia never shakes off her deep-rooted fears. After the Daventrys’ death, Cynthia marries Captain Harry Rames, an up-and-coming politician whom she had first admired years earlier when as a naval officer he had led an expedition to the Antarctic.
The season brought Nakajima his first stint with the Japanese national team as he was chosen to play in the 2008 Beijing Olympics."Olympics Capsules: Previews for eight Olympic teams" Baseball America He hit .343 and led the league in batting average in the first half of the season,"'Hoshino Japan' shakes off injury concerns as preparations heat up" The Japan Times playing in the All- Star Game for the fourth time of his career (though he was relegated to third base due to the selections of shortstops Munenori Kawasaki of the Hawks and Tsuyoshi Nishioka of the Chiba Lotte Marines and committed an error on a bad throw) and even seeing time as the team's cleanup hitter when teammates and resident power hitters Craig Brazell and G.G. Sato were slumping. While his batting average dipped after returning to Japan following the Olympics, Nakajima hit .
The half-hour report reviews the week's global business events from a Canadian perspective.Pat Kiernan to Host New Bloomberg Show The routine of his early morning commute to work at NY1 is the subject of Kiernan's first children's book Good Morning, City, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2016. A starred review in Publishers Weekly explains that "Kiernan knows a lot about how a city shakes off sleep."Good Morning, City Kiernan has appeared in cameos as himself or as a reporter in such films as The Interpreter (2005), Night at the Museum (2006), True North (film) (2006), The Son of No One (2011), Iron Man 3 (2013) and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014). He has been featured in publications including New York magazine ("Morning Star", February 5, 2001), and the New York Post ("Dream Job: Pat Kiernan", October 3, 2005) and The New Yorker ("Explainer"; May 21, 2012).
Crash forces Nuke to learn "not to think" by letting the catcher make the pitching calls (memorably at two points telling the batters what pitch is coming after Nuke shakes off his signs), and lectures him about the pressure of facing major league hitters who can hit his "heat" (fastballs). Crash also talks about the pleasure of life in major league, which he briefly lived for "the 21 greatest days of my life" and to which he has tried for years to return. Meanwhile, as Nuke matures, the relationship between Annie and Crash grows, until it becomes obvious that the two of them are a more appropriate match, except for the fact that Annie and Nuke are currently a couple. After a rough start, Nuke becomes a dominant pitcher by mid-season, adding to the Bulls good fortunes and, in the end, he is called up to the major leagues.
Cleveland Browns rookie Jim Brown shakes off three tacklers and runs 29 yards for a touchdown in the 1957 NFL championship game. Brown led the league in rushing in all but one season in his career. With Otto Graham and most of the other original Browns in retirement, by 1957 the team was struggling to replenish its ranks. In the first round of that year's draft, Cleveland took fullback Jim Brown out of Syracuse University. In his first season, Brown led the NFL with 942 yards of rushing and was voted rookie of the year in a United Press poll. Cleveland finished 9–2–1 and again advanced to the championship game against Detroit. The Lions dominated the game, forcing six turnovers and allowing only 112 yards passing in a 59–14 rout. Before the 1958 season, O'Connell, who lacked the stature and durability Paul Brown wanted in a starter, retired to take a coaching job in Illinois, and Milt Plum was named as his replacement.
He meets Mary later at her aunts' house, and learns she has been working for Sandy, who also knows about the Fields of Eden; they have found the missing girl, Adela Victor, disguised as one of the dancers at the club, but are no closer to finding the little boy. Hannay is invited to stay at Medina's house, but before he moves there he hears from Mary that Archie Roylance has been to the club, been upset by Odell's treatment of the girl and revealed Turpin's identity. Hannay visits Roylance in hospital, where he was recovering from having been beaten by Odell, but Turpin has disappeared – Hannay later learns he was taken, part-hypnotised by Kharama, to a strange house; there Turpin shakes off his paralysis, sees his girl in the house, and plays quiet for a time. Hannay moves in with Medina, whose cool facade has weakened somewhat, and hears that Sandy has been spotted in London.
Decker shakes off his catatonia and invites Christopher to stay with him, and Christopher becomes his new family. Jon Hansen offers Decker a position as his assistant at the United Nations, where Christopher encounters Robert Milner, a retired Secretary General who is heavily involved in occult practices, and recognizes Christopher as one who has been prophesied in New Age Councils to usher in a new era of peace and prosperity and enhanced consciousness for mankind. Alice Bernley (a thinly veiled reference to Alice Bailey - an actual noted Theosophist), a confidant of Milner's also sees and recognizes Christopher and they befriend him, and Milner assumes the role of mentor to Christopher, not only in politics, but in a worldwide New Age movement. Meanwhile, Jon Hansen has been working on an ambitious project to reorganize the United Nations to better handle operations, and in light of the recent Disaster (The Rapture), he has almost open reign to do what he sees necessary.

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