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I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.
Heidi Montag
You
Humble
Pretending
Diva
Never
Caught
Been
Up
Beginnings
Get
Hollywood
Really
When I was 15, I came downstairs one morning, picked up mother's newspaper and, oh, what a shock! The Titanic had gone. The 'unsinkable' ship - but it had gone down so simple.
Henry Allingham
Morning
Simple
Mother
Gone
Down
One Morning
Had
Picked
Came
Ship
Up
Shock
Oh
Titanic
Newspaper
Downstairs
I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.
Henry Allingham
Life
Best
Happy
Marriage
My Life
Daughters
Had
Were
Years
Happened
Happy Marriage
Things
Two
I don't mind if my future is long or short, as long as I'm doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people.
Henry Allingham
Future
People
Doing The Right Thing
Mind
Long
Other
Right Thing
Doing
Behave
Short
The Right Thing
Right
Thing
How have I lived so long? I never worried. In the '20s, there were millions of men out of work. You couldn't get a job anywhere. I wasn't worried.
Henry Allingham
Work
You
Job
Men
Long
Worried
Out
Never
How
Were
Get
Anywhere
Lived
Millions
I've only ever kissed one girl: my Dorothy. We met in 1915 and married in 1918. She died in 1970.
Henry Allingham
Girl
Met
Married
Kissed
Only
She
Died
Dorothy
Ever
When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.
Henry M. Morris
Bible
Science
Data
Misinterpreted
Obviously
Differ
The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.
Henry M. Morris
Impossible
Evolutionary
Only
Supernatural
Divine
Nevertheless
Involving
Although
Prove
Scientifically
Test
Either
Which
Explanation
Naturalistic
Element
Creator
Origins
Basis
Defended
A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.
Howard Staunton
Ending
King
Important
Only
Directly
He
Advantage
Between
Adverse
Said
His
Opposition
Square
Front
Often
Place
Them
Games
Player
A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.
Howard Staunton
Value
Three
Minor
Piece
Pieces
Five
May
Pawn
Two
Fraction
For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King.
Howard Staunton
Man
King
Adversary
Him
His
Square
Option
Legally
May
Move
Moved
Cannot
Which
Require
Playing
For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.
Howard Staunton
Man
King
Must
Touching
Adversary
His
Offender
Move
Cannot
Captured
Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.
Howard Staunton
You
Battle
Will
Men
Superior
First
Party
Ranks
Having
Observe
Pieces
Diagram
Eight
Order
Which
Next
Pawn
Stand
Shown
Each
Two
If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.
Howard Staunton
Game
Anger
Decision
Otherwise
Abandon
Must
Abide
Table
Him
Umpire
Offensive
Refuses
Quitting
Either
Against
Manner
Momentarily
Resigning
Player
In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.
Howard Staunton
King
First
Opposing
Before
Completed
Must
Touched
Shall
Demand
Without
May
Move
Moved
Being
Stand
Player
It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.
Howard Staunton
Best
Judgment
Duty
Determine
Laws
Him
His
Umpire
Questions
According
Submitted
Apply
Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.
Howard Staunton
Great
Confused
Fault
Discouraged
Otherwise
Distinctions
Variety
Delicate
Excellent
Outset
Study
Openings
Learner
Been
Very
Persons
Many
The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.
Howard Staunton
Queen
Bishop
Minor
Knight
Pieces
The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.
Howard Staunton
White
Corner
Must
Square
Placed
The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game.
Howard Staunton
Time
Game
Penalty
Exceeding
Limit
The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.
Howard Staunton
Game
Queen
Valuable
Reckoned
Towards
Equal
She
End
Situations
Average
Pawn
Hardly
Two
When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.
Howard Staunton
Enemy
Situation
Taken
Put
Piece
Said
May
Pawn
Captured
Play
When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece.
Howard Staunton
You
Man
Enemy
Valuable
King
Danger
Attack
Attacked
Attacking
Between
Checked
Piece
Said
Any
Play
Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.
Hulk Hogan
Time
Champion
World
Become
Hopefully
Wrestling
Ruth
Federation
Same
Same Time
Babe
Babe Ruth
And you know what - and I don't mean this in tongue in cheek way - but it's like deja vu. When I walked in to WCW they were producing wrestling on a little teeny sound stage at Disney, okay? I'm walking into TNA and they're producing wrestling in a little teeny sound stage at Universal.
Hulk Hogan
You
Stage
Way
Okay
Deja
Deja Vu
Wrestling
Like
Cheek
Know
Sound
Were
Walked
Walking
Little
Mean
Disney
Producing
Universal
Tongue
Tongue-In-Cheek
The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest.
Hulk Hogan
Time
Home
You
People
Think
Machine
Ring
Brother
Over
Come
Hours
Yeah
Pinball
Yelling
Huge
Hit
Goes
Hulk
Oh
Oh Yeah
Screaming
Gonna
Whole
Coolest
Coolest Thing
Play
Thing
Bells
Playing
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