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the lines a baseball player must follow while running the bases

one of the small muscles of the eye that serve to rotate the eyeball

A kitchen vessel for steaming or boiling food.

the act of expanding an aperture

Frasier injures his back while blowing out birthday candles.

to engage in sexual intercourse

a volcanic island in the Pacific, part of the Solomon Islands

the hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder

Chutzpanik is a Yiddish term that is often used to describe someone who is audacious, impertinent or impudent. Its a term that often carries a negative connotation as it usually refers to a person who is boldly disrespectful or rude. The term comes from the Hebrew word hutspâ, which means insolence or audacity. However, in some contexts, it may also refer to someone who is remarkably courageous or exhibits a daring spirit. It is thus context-dependent and can be used either pejoratively or approvingly.

Tragic refers to something that is associated with or characterized by extreme distress, sorrow, or disaster, typically resulting in serious harm or death. It often denotes a terrible or unfortunate event or outcome that evokes a sense of deep sadness or emotional pain. Tragic can also refer to a genre of literature or drama that often involves a noble character facing downfall due to their fatal flaw or a catastrophic event.

a measure used by an acquirer to gain control of a takeover target; acquirer tries to persuade other shareholders that the management of the target should be replaced

Genus Lactarius is a large group of fungus species, commonly known as milk-caps. The key characteristic of these species is that they exude a milky latex substance when the mushroom tissue is cut or broken. Species of this genus can be found worldwide and typically grow in mycorrhizal associations with various types of trees. Their edibility varies, with some species being edible and others poisonous.

large black Old World grouse

Work-to-rule (also known as an Italian strike, in Italian: Sciopero bianco, or Slowdown in US usage) is a job action in which employees do no more than the minimum required by the rules of their contract or job, and strictly follow time-consuming rules normally not enforced. This may cause a slowdown or decrease in productivity if the employer does not hire enough employees or pay the appropriate salary and as such does not have the requirements needed to run at the level they desire. It is a form of protest against low pay and poor working conditions, and is considered less disruptive than a strike or lockout as obeying the rules is not susceptible to disciplinary action or loss of pay.
In practice there may be ambiguous conditions, for example a contract that requires working additional hours when necessary, or a requirement to work to operational requirements. In such cases workers have been recommended to ask for a written direction to carry out the work, which can be used as evidence if necessary.

someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature

Through and through is a phrase often used to emphasize that someone or something possesses a quality, characteristic, or condition to the fullest extent. Its a way of saying completely, thoroughly, totally, or in every part or aspect. For instance, saying someone is a musician through and through means that person deeply embodies the qualities of a musician in all respects.

Frederick Theodore Albert Delius ( 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934), originally Fritz Delius, was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation. He soon neglected his managerial duties and in 1886 returned to Europe.
Having been influenced by African-American music during his short stay in Florida, he began composing. After a brief period of formal musical study in Germany beginning in 1886, he embarked on a full-time career as a composer in Paris and then in nearby Grez-sur-Loing, where he and his wife Jelka lived for the rest of their lives, except during the First World War.
Deliuss first successes came in Germany, where Hans Haym and other conductors promoted his music from the late 1890s. In Deliuss native Britain, his music did not make regular appearances in concert programmes until 1907, after Thomas Beecham took it up. Beecham conducted the full premiere of A Mass of Life in London in 1909 (he had premiered Part II in Germany in 1908); he staged the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet at Covent Garden in 1910; and he mounted a six-day Delius festival in London in 1929, as well as making gramophone recordings of many of the composers works. After 1918, Delius began to suffer the effects of syphilis, contracted during his earlier years in Paris. He became paralysed and blind, but completed some late compositions between 1928 and 1932 with the aid of an amanuensis, Eric Fenby.
The lyricism in Deliuss early compositions reflected the music he had heard in America and the influences of European composers such as Grieg and Wagner. As his skills matured, he developed a style uniquely his own, characterised by his individual orchestration and his uses of chromatic harmony. Deliuss music has been only intermittently popular, and often subject to critical attacks. The Delius Society, formed in 1962 by his more dedicated followers, continues to promote knowledge of the composers life and works, and sponsors the annual Delius Prize competition for young musicians.

anticipating; expectant; -- with of

succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds

a globe that is a spherical model of the heavens