Word: banisher
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...supposed to be the party to end all parties, on Thailand's premier party isle; a riot of noise and color that would banish the specters of terrorism and SARS and celebrate Koh Samui's transformation from druggy refuge to haven of good, clean family fun. The Beach author Alex Garland was out, floral garlands were in?if you bought the hype...
...pays to tell people what they want to hear. Witness the continuing popularity of the Atkins diet, the granddaddy of nearly all the low-carbohydrate, high-protein regimens clamoring to banish your love handles. Here's a plan that promises you can eat pork rinds and Brie and still lose weight. Dr. Robert Atkins' books have sold some 15 million copies over the past 30 years, and his potential audience just keeps growing. More than 60% of American adults are overweight or obese, according to the latest estimates...
...seen in decades. The man who emerged was unbowed but also unsophisticated about modern media. (On that first day, he thought a furry TV boom mike was a weapon.) By the time I met Mandela in 1992, he was savvy about his image and knew that he had to banish any public bitterness to win racial reconciliation in his divided land. During what he called his "long, lonely, wasted years" in prison, he never doubted that his country would achieve democracy. It just took a lot longer than he had expected. --By Richard Stengel, who collaborated with Mandela...
...aunt Virginia Conrad, who eventually told Ed practically everything he knows about his mother. "There was a lot of embarrassment about it." For a while, Ed blamed himself for his mother's condition--he wondered if his birth had made her snap--but mostly he tried to banish her from his mind and go on with his life. He joined the Air Force and married his wife Velma. They had three children...
When Min K. Lieskovsky was a kid, she had dreams of world domination. “I wanted to banish everyone from the United States so I could ride a giraffe cross-country and never see anybody,” she says. “It’s not really normal, but I didn’t have any ordinary career goals...