The honorable hockey player skated away avoiding the fight.

pragmatic

Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably be used by the pragmatic man in the street.
William Shockley


shale

Shale is composed mainly of clay minerals that are easily split into flat pieces and a lot of country roads in our area use this product as a base.

collector

The sense of conquest is in it. Not often is a collector able to obtain complete material in one assault. The plant may be at the moment sterile, or only in fruit or flower... but this lack has the advantage of stimulating the collector to go back in another season or year to complete the work.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Guru

My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda.
Donald Walters

endorse

Upon completion of the Olympics the Gold Medalists are offerred so many opportunities to endorse products by international corporations to enahnce their advertising.

Cheer

I often have a hard time being of good cheer (I've got to stop watching the news)

Thankful

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
[Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

defiant

an example of being defiant would be a mouse "flipping off" the hawk before being snatched up.

courageous

I am so appreciative that Clint Eastwood finally got the story straight that it was a courageous Indian that planted the USA flag in the ground in the second world war in Iwo Jima.
Not enough people get credit until they are no longer with us to share with our countries the pride and joy of being a loyal countryman!!!

News

Stay a little and news will find you.
George Herbert

leafy

Leafy green vegetables are supposed to be included in our daily diet as excellent sources of vitamins.

water

Blood is thick than water.


secrecy

Secrecy and dishonesty can be the root of all evil.

crooked

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David Thoreau

Firmament

If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
John Milton

stale

“There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.”
Alex Van Halen

Euphoria.

Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.
Stanley Elkin


temple

America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.
Nick Clooney

shades

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.
Oliver Goldsmith

deeply

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
Mortimer Adler

deviate

Deviate an inch, lose a thousand miles.
Proverb


dream

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.
Peter Abrahams

welfare

I went down to the local government agency building to get some welfare. When I got home my wife was wondering why I had a shirt that said "I went to get welfare and all I got was this lousy shirt."

paper

We spent the time before Christmas wallpapering the kitchen and renovating and we are indeed glad that project is over!!!

identification

It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings.
Rollo May

frontal

The human brain appears to have no localized centre of conscious control and derives consciousness from interactions of numerous systems; executive functions of the brain rely on cerebral activities, especially those of the frontal lobes.


transfer

my 4x4 uses a shift-on-the-fly transfer case

repentant

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Aristotle

device

It's getting near the season where I will have to fill the water gun device to chase off the stellar jays from planting their peanuts in our flower boxes as our pesty neighbour insists on feeding them!!

facts

"Just the facts ma'am" (Sgt. Joe Friday)

incite

Do not incite a fight at this hockey game or you will face the repercussions.

Mountains

“If I Had My Life To Live Over: I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax, I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swi”

Calculator.

The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.
Edmund Burke

towering

I find it unbelievable how my nieces and nephews are towering over us each time we spend our annual Christmas festive season together and they are only in their teens, they are not over weight simply "tall"!!! (maybe they wear lifts in their shoes!!!!??? ) or maybe we should!!!

sticky

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.
Jean Baudrillard


platter

All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.
Darrell Royal

Divine

To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope


fancy

It is new fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
Voltaire


amazing

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
Anne Tyler

dialect

I always have to work something through my system until it's absolutely in my own dialect and it's comfortable to me.
Robert Wyatt

sunshine

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine nor a garden without love.
Chinese proverb

faulty

“When you say, 'I don't know,' you cannot then draw a conclusion. That's faulty logic.”

Joe Nickell

Conception.

Conception is often a misconception of two people fail to communicate

me

horror

Life is what you make of it, it can be beautiful or a horror!


travesty

2001: A Space Travesty , was indeed aptly named

Word please

can you please pass the salt?

hungry

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
Sitting Bull

clap

If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them. . . . I am no true man.
William Shakespeare

eager