Word: braced
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...prospect of college-wide standardized testing is not enough, brace for more educational bureaucracy...
...were also in physical pain—you had just undergone an operation on your leg, and were in a brace. Do you think that the leg brace changed either your experiences at Harvard or your songwriting at the time...
...Brace yourselves. A new wave of wine marketing is upon us. Julie Brosterman found herself drenched in it as she strolled the aisles of a Rite Aid in Los Angeles. Surrounding her were towering displays of pink and white wines in bottles bearing such flowery names as Seduction and White Lie. Brosterman, creator of the website womenwine.com derisively dubs them the Virginia Slims of the wine trade...
...black people in America is complex and nuanced, and goes a great deal deeper than the primary, mostly male players we’ve come to identify with it. After all, if we’re going to tell the story, we might as well tell it right. But brace yourselves—this could take more than a month. Ashton R. Lattimore ’08 is an English concentrator in Dunster House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
parents should brace themselves before reading this latest book on bringing up children. Sensitive types won't be far into Raising an Optimistic Child (McGraw-Hill; 239 pages) before the fear hits that they've messed up their kids. Husband-and-wife authors Bob Murray and Alicia Fortinberry don't dismiss the role genes play in shaping us. But they focus on the ways parenting can set up a child for a lifetime of joy or misery. "Bad parenting" is a phrase they're not afraid to use, and to their minds it encompasses much more than blatant offenses like...