Word: bout
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...discontent with Lubavitch’s stringent customs led her to join other questioners at an infamous 888 Montgomery St. apartment, where poets would recite verses as a joint made its way around the room. Finding others who also questioned Lubavitch saved Rochel from a dangerous bout with depression that nearly ended in suicide, Levine says. The options for such questioners are not many...
...accident links the lives of three people through a chain of pain, remorse and isolation. There’s Christina Peck (Naomi Watts), whose way of coping with tragedy leads her into a self-destructive bout with drugs and depression. Paul Rivers (Sean Penn) is always seconds away from cardiac failure and he desperately clings to any hope for life even as he takes long, painful drags from countless cigarettes. Then there’s Jack Jordan (Benicio del Toro), an ex-con whose fanatical love for Jesus—an obsession which reformed his criminal ways—will...
...student could feel safe at the College, or on an equal academic plane, if they believed they were forced to endure whatever illness they encountered without medical assistance. They could not be expected to compete and learn as easily if they knew they were one bad bout of pneumonia away from leaving college altogether. For families from truly impoverished situations, that experience is reality. For Harvard students who experienced an inadequate level of medical care in their childhood, it is thankfully a reality only in life before Harvard...
...nationally televised speech in parliament last week, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak broke out in a sweat, coughed, staggered and slumped over as his security detail rushed forward to help him. Senior Egyptian sources confirmed to TIME that Mubarak's collapse, as the government maintains, came during a bout...
Baria, who was wrestling in the same weight class as Meltzer, felt he could have done better if he had been more alert. When Baria asked the referee what match he was about to wrestle, the referee told him he was wrestling to place into the fifth-place bout, not the actual fifth-place match itself. The misunderstanding left Baria unprepared for what he was about to face...