Word: aversives
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Another chapter is hurtling toward what its author hopes will be a breathtaking close. Storm clouds are gathering, foreshadows lengthening. You are firmly in the grip of what the book jacket avers is "Stephen King's boldest exercise in terror." Your eye skips to the bottom of the page, and...
This hunger is quite evident in a personality whose idea of recreation is getting behind the wheel of his BMW and outmaneuvering New York City taxi drivers. "Driving here is wonderful," he avers, "especially if you want to go fast. There's nothing greater than starting at 125th and Second...
Rypkema and Grant are the only two returning sophomores. In addition to Jose, the team will return two juniors: outside hitter Alexandra Green and setter Mika Sampson. And the team will return three senior besides Heit: co-captain setter Judy Iriye, outside hitter Jessica Dowme and middle hitter Kelli Avers...
Marenches got on better with Ronald Reagan -- "no intellectual," he avers, "but a good man." During an Oval Office chat in 1981, the count suggested a rather farfetched plan he called "Operation Mosquito" to undermine Soviet morale in Afghanistan -- "so named because one tiny mosquito can drive a bear crazy...
At Yale, Long was already ornamenting the graduate drama school. "I was trailing clouds of lavender smoke," he avers, "and Paul wanted to catch some of it. We were all sort of larger than life -- in our own minds." If Rudnick had that self-image, he soon grew into it...