Word: curely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boyfriend [or] girlfriend is a great cure...because intimacy is the best protection againstbeing depressed...
Woodley and several other students on campus are finding the cure for their monotonous summers through the U.S. State Department, which offers internships abroad in American embassies...
...Ducey says, the best cure fordepression is talking to someone, seeking intimacyin order to help ease the feelings of loneliness...
...personal "extras" are a problem because they embarrass us. To themselves, they're just going about their daily routine, but to us they represent opportunities missed, projects abandoned and friendships unstruck. They are the could-have-beens of our college careers. Maybe someday one of them will discover a cure for some disease, and then people will say to us, "Laundry-Basket Boy just rid the world of multiple sclerosis. Weren't you in college together?" Or maybe Pre-Frosh could have been a great friend of ours. We'll never know. What's embarrassing is not that we aren...
...digital thermometers, didn't know that they were playing with a poison--one that can be absorbed through vapors or prolonged contact with the skin. They didn't know that the expression "mad as a hatter" refers to the 19th century workmen who used mercury to cure beaver skins for top hats and over time developed nervous twitches, drooled and spoke incoherently...