Word: benign
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...suddenly and selectively benign attitude of the Bush team toward manual recounts - do them or don't do them, just get them in on time - occasionally tripped them up with seven judges who have been at least perusing the papers. (Justice Barbara Pariente, almost absurdly, even tried to nail Bush heavy-lifter Michael Carvin on Bush's Texas hand-count law.) At one point, in the middle of his "contest" argument, Carvin had to say whether the current hand counts would proceed beyond a Harris certification. "No" was not the answer this court was looking...
AILING. EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER, 79, sister of John F. Kennedy, mother of NBC reporter Maria Shriver, Special Olympics founder; from a postoperative infection after the removal of a benign pancreatic tumor; in Baltimore...
Quickly after the onset of these initial, mostly benign symptoms, more serious symptoms such as chest pain and shock ensue, and some patients become blind or begin to bleed profusely. This bleeding is caused by the breakdown of membranous tissues that separate different parts of the body from others. As these cells become infected and release their viral loads, the patients' organs effectively liquefy. Membranes that separate the patient from the outside world also breakdown, releasing this internal viral slurry. In effect, the patient becomes a human virus bomb...
...word. The (humorless) physiologist describes laughter as spasmodic, rhythmic, vocalized, expiratory and, when due to tickling, involuntary: Those studying the neural pathways of what is called "the tickle-laughter reflex arc" postulate that tickling results from the simultaneous sensation of both touch and pain - a kind of benign assault, wherein Normality of touch (N) and a prospective Violence of pain (V) suddenly occupy the same space. N + V = H (hilarity...
...those students concerned with the continued vitality of Harvard theater should be wary of the seemingly benign camraderie that makes the theater community so unique. For along with a sense of community comes a sense of social norms. And such norms can, over time, begin to prevade everything from ideas about casting to styles of acting to a director's choice of plays and even to decisions about which plays to attend, leaving those who want to try something different in virtual obscurity...