Word: cooker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mixed emotions: hostility, hatred, anger. At that point, it was just welling up in me. I felt like I was in a pressure cooker. To be truthful, if I had had a gun -- and I'm scared to death of them -- I would probably have blown his brains out because I felt 'You have no right to come to me like this. I've done nothing to anyone.' If the people around me had ignored me, acted like I didn't exist, that would not have disturbed me one bit because I've been black all my life...
...distance of 23 miles. Three six-story turrets holding the guns were encased in armor up to 17 1/2 in. thick. When last week's explosion occurred during training exercises about 330 miles off Puerto Rico, that protective armor turned the turret into a tightly sealed pressure cooker...
...Pressure Cooker: Harvard's press continues to strike fear in the minds of opposing coaches and probably is the top reason for the Crimson's improvement during the last six weeks...
Clark said to reduce the number of students who suffer from clinical depression, schools should encourage their students to seek psychological help and eliminate "pressure-cooker" atmospheres...
...greatly enjoyed Eric Pulier's op-ed piece, "The Reading Period Blues". Certainly all undergraduates agree that the Harvard academic calendar, which Grinch-like steals the joy from our holidays then welcomes us back with two weeks in a pressure cooker as we try to do special Reading Period reading assignments, write term papers and prepare for exams all at once, seems to be the offspring of sadism and dementia, kept alive by tradition. I know I did, until I learned The One True Reason the academic calendar will never be changed to put finals before Christmas...