Word: bonds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Events like "ski trips help bond the group, but we constantly need to think of what's going to happen after we leave," Fraser said. "If we don't have the money--which we certainly don't--we just can't afford to have group trips like that...
Working with the same person for months establishes a strong bond between tutor and tutee. Although we are prohibited from asking them what crime they have committed, inmates often volunteer this information, along with stories about their families and prison life. For some inmates, we are the only civilian contact they encounter throughout their stay in prison, a fact which often blurs the line between our role as tutor and confidante...
...like all those with numbered e-mail address, I found that the number grows on you after an initial period of distaste. You bond with it. It becomes part of you. As we evolve into a digital information economy, in which numbers are easier to parse, sort and control, there is something alluring about a name-number hybrid identity...
...feel a bond with lee38 of Mather House (partially because we often receive each other's e-mail) and the now gone lee37, lee40 and lee41. These ties arise not only from proximity on the number line, but also from the simple mathematical relationships we learned to love in elementary school. One committee I worked on consisted of lee13, chen26, and me, lee39. We were united by the subtle understanding that our e-mail addresses shared a greatest common factor of 13. Sometimes love is in the numbers; one couple I know share the number 10 in their e-mail...
...love Hooch, you love Hooch. I give you Hooch, and we have a bond," she concluded. When asked if she drinks Hooch on her own time, Tatyana replies that she always drinks it because she "finds it refreshing" when she dances. "Also," she adds, "When I drink Hooch, I can drive home, because it has less alcohol." When reminded that the label reads, "4.7% alcohol"--about the same as a bottle of beer--all "Hooch Girls" shook their heads vigorously from side to side. "No, it has less alcohol, because it is a natural product," one said. "It's fresh...