Word: bracingly
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Then there is the case of miracles, in which I have an advantage over some, having actually seen a few myself. When I was young, my family attended religious services run by a woman named Grace, a brassy Italian-American lady whose ministry was based around her ability to (brace yourselves, my science-concentrating friends) heal people of various illnesses, ranging from chronic arthritis to cancer. She would pluck sufferers from the crowd, name their ailments, touch them—and they would fall over and lie twitching on the carpeted floor of whatever Connecticut high school auditorium her constantly...
...happy to be once again onboard Ark Royal. You see, I launched her and her predecessor [in 1950]. So it's wonderful to feel that now she's going to be at sea and guarding our shores just as in the days of yore ... Captain, splice the main brace" ? a reference to the old naval custom of an extra tot of rum, a round for a job well done. On the day before Easter, her job well done, the Queen Mother died peacefully in her sleep at Royal Lodge, her residence at Windsor, with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth...
Things only got worse for Valdesolo when, trailing 4-2 in the second game, he reinjured his right ankle, rolling it in spite of the brace he sported. Valdesolo did manage to win the next point, but Bullock then ran the table, capturing the final 14 points of the match as Valdesolo misfired on several shots and, as he grew more desperate and searched in vain for an advantage, became more aggressive in his shot-taking, leading to even more errors...
DIED. WILLIAM JOVANOVICH, 81, maverick businessman who became chairman of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1954, seven years after joining the publishing house as a college-textbook salesman; of heart failure; in San Diego. During his 36-year tenure, Jovanovich also published his own writings, including a 1990 novel, The World's Last Night...
What should we make of the FBI's warning Monday night that the nation should brace itself for another terror attack in the next week? Threat warnings are easy to make but difficult to justify - at least in public. Divulge too many details on why you're giving the warning and you expose "sources and methods" - spy jargon for how you got the intelligence on the threat. Osama bin Laden and his operatives are savvy. They watch closely U.S. threat warnings for clues as to where the leaks are in their operations, so the leaks can be plugged...