Word: faints
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...lunch, meat for dinner, and several other breaks for sweet black tea. The fact that we were in an area where people routinely starved did nothing to stem his appetites. If, as happened on occasion, I forced Bishaq to miss a meal, he would complain constantly. "I feel faint, I feel weak," he'd say, holding up a frail hand. "It's not right. It's not good...
...player from taking that potentially heart-breaking heave by fouling him before he has a chance to shoot the ball. In the college game, that usually sends the opponent to the line, forcing him to make the first free throw, and then miss the second one intentionally with the faint hope of grabbing an offensive rebound and tying the game before the buzzer sounds. There's no denying that the chances of that scenario succeeding are a lot slimmer than nailing a last-second three pointer...
...brain tumor at only 42, leaving him with two young children to care for. Hofstadter was overwhelmed by grief, and much of I Am a Strange Loop flows from his sense that Carol lives on in him--that the strange loop of her mind persists in his, a faint but real copy of her software running on his neural hardware, her tune played on his instrument. "It was that sense that the same thing was being felt inside her and inside me--that it wasn't two different feelings, it was the same feeling," Hofstadter says. "If you believe that...
Abstinence is not for the faint of heart; it effectively separates men from boys, weeding out those who succumb weakly to temptation from those who are worthy of a woman’s attention. Unfortunately, too often, our society falsely suggests that sexual experience is a “must-have,” encouraging men to boast (often fictitiously) of weekend hook-ups, glorifying a culture of empty promiscuity. Yet, this is not for a lack of understanding men: uncouth and socially inept though many Harvard men may be, I can attest to the existence of many upstanding, good...
...fact, on race day in late February, it's warm enough to be snowing - this is, after all, the end of the Antarctic summer. Still, at the finish line, shoelaces are encased in blocks of muddy ice, and drinking water is slushy. The Antarctica Marathon is not for the faint of heart...