Word: dente
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...recreation and training can < contribute directly to declines in crime and juvenile-arrest rates. The message may be getting through. A small but growing number of mayors and judges, most of them Republicans, are breaking party ranks to say that it's prevention, not inflexible punishment, that puts a dent in crime...
Well into the second half, though, neither side looked likely to dent the other's netting. In the game's 63rd minute, just-into-the-game Brown substitute Jay Ball fired a loaded 20-yarder that Albers could only pound into the ground, although the Harvard sophomore was able to cover the grenade before it could do any significant damage...
...skulls and skeletons, fetal remains of offspring that could never be human, shadowy effigies of things that went bump in the night. The Mutter's polished wood, gleaming brass rails and dark oil paintings suggest the library of a wealthy if eccentric 19th century aristocrat. But when professor Thomas Dent Mutter bequeathed his collection to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1856, he intended it as a teaching aid, a guide to the eccentricities -- however terrifying -- of the human body. "This is absolutely serious, scientific and educational," said Mutter director Gretchen Worden. "That's the only...
Even the charge that Hanselman couldn't be responsive to student interests since he now lives off-campus with his new wife didn't make a noticeable dent in his armor...
Other proposal include a "no-scandal guarantee." Hanselman wrote that he will resign if the council's "reputation...is damaged due to any act of incompetence or indiscretion I commit during my insure as presi- dent...