Word: bleeds
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Finally, scientists have invented a contraceptive pill that does away with a woman’s period entirely. Lybrel, the new pill, can be taken continuously without the monthly bleed that most pills require and, since its approval last month by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it now seems possible to release women everywhere from their wretched biological “curse.” In short, welcome liberation; goodbye Tampax...
...becomes clear to the members of each new class that the smartest kid from high school is now just another kid in the entryway. Yet even as students develop a degree of modesty and homogenize into one of the 1,000 people in Ec 10, the entitlement continues to bleed into their more modest existence. The lingering need to be on top results in the unintentionally hilarious accumulation of officer positions, academic prizes, and memberships in some of our 300-plus student groups...
...clearly everyone around me can hear what I’m listening to whenever I walk around with the volume up. That every once in a while I consciously turn the sound up too high, especially in the shuttle and the elevator in Currier House, because I want the bleed-through, and I hope, despicably, that someone will recognize a beat or a tune and think one thing or another as I walk...
...office chair) look aout on a stunning vista of the Government Documents and Microforms room and Lamont’s front garden. On the other, a virtual death-row of cubicles tempts only the most concentrated studiers. Luckily, in case the below-sea level altitude induces a nose-bleed, bathroom sinks are nearby. Fifth Floor Reading Room. If you’re not ready to hit up the dance club that is the third floor main reading room with all of its motion and commotion, check out the upper-level reading room, the “quiet zone...
...audiences, the subtitles do more than just translate the literal meaning: the words "no" and "stop" with three exclamation points are shown on different parts of the screen in large, moving letters. In another scene, as a swimming character hears a voice in his head causing his nose to bleed, the words "come to me," appear in red letters that dissolve like blood in the pool...