Soon she had recorded more than 50 hours of tapes, allowing her to memorize offbeat words while she cleaned house, cooked meals, folded laundry. The more words you know, the more bullets in your gun. And she relished the adrenaline rush. I think I thrive on the competition more than most women do. They're so used to being conciliatory.
Men are more pushed to succeed.
This is just a boring thing their mom does. At 49, Barrett is a meticulously contained player, the tension pulsating beneath her carefully groomed exterior betrayed only by a restless scribbling of possible letter combinations. Barrett thought for a moment. Club director Jim Bodenstedt flipped through the 105,000-word list of acceptable words to make his ruling. To play is something else.