Word: crutches
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...whether that’s a negative effect or a long-term positive effect remains to be seen. As a group, I think that we’re determined to have a successful season and don’t want to use this situation as a crutch.”Richter’s shoes will definitely be hard to fill. The junior was not only one of the Crimson’s greatest assets, but he was also the best goalie in the league. Last season, he went 17-13-4 in his 34 games and landed...
Although their new movies feature drugs, Sir Ben and Apatow rarely use the D word when discussing them, as if willing pot out of delinquency and into mere dysfunction. For The Wackness, weed's a crutch; it takes the edge off loneliness, ennui or the shyness people feel around the opposite sex. Luke, the dealer, lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side and is on his way to college--his safety school, but still. In Weeds, Mary-Louise Parker's a pot dealer who sells to successful, bored, suburban business types. Even the protagonists of Harold & Kumar Escape from Guant?...
...group got a lot of international attention when a drunken neighbor dressed as Darth Vader attacked several Jedi members with a crutch. Has going head to head with the Dark Side helped attract new recruits...
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...Somehow, between that dreadful break-up and now, I became hooked. What began as a benign emotional crutch is now a consuming physical and psychological addiction. If I go two or three waking hours without a smoke, my hands tremble and I become unbearably bitchy (even worse than PMS—God help...