Word: barriere
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...good thing; it's the only way to break the barrier," commented a taxi driver. One woman maintained, "They have a right to picked. That...
Despite the co-educational flavor of the summer session, College students will be subject to rigid parietal rules, which permit no visiting between sexes in the dorms. The effect of this barrier, coupled with the lack of common room facilities, tends to convert the Yard "into a large summer common room," according to Crooks...
...enterprise. Said he at his press conference a fortnight ago: "There will not be, under any conditions, an intervention in Cuba by U.S. armed forces." Apart from the damage it did to the morale of anti-Castro Cubans, the President's absolute promise acted last week as a barrier against effective action during the critical hours...
Desperately, Gilbert sawed on the reins and slashed with his whip. But Plenty Papaya bolted back to the inside. Just before hitting the barrier, horse and rider parted company. The railbirds were watching the front runners, and no one saw what happened next. But an aluminum-shod hoof or the concrete base of a rail post shattered the jockey's skull. Roy Gilbert died on the way to a hospital...
Bankrupt Piggy Bank. What separates the S-Man from the F-Man, or failure, is that he has rocketed through the Inhibition Barrier-a mental obstacle consisting of outmoded ethical principles by which the F-Man limits himself. The F-Man believes "that virtue is its own reward, that a man's word is his bond, that money isn't everything. The failure wishes to be credited with good marks for each little deed. He regards his career as a kind of piggy bank. At the end of a lifetime he breaks open the piggy bank and finds...