Word: felted
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Emily Summerhays, 30, felt regret immediately after her 2002 wedding ceremony. She found herself crying even as she said goodbye to guests at the reception. "It was sort of buyer's remorse - 'What did I just do? This is really permanent,' " she recalls. That feeling of losing one's selfhood can be overwhelming, especially when it's coupled with a sense of duty to do everything as a pair, says Dr. Jane Greer, a marriage and family therapist based in New York City who has taught a seminar called "Are You Ready for Commitment?" Greer says: "It's a question...
...must have been the happiest or the luckiest man alive. As a boy he felt trapped in working-class Blackpool, the Coney Island of England, and so won a scholarship to Cambridge. He loved jazz and American movies, so he got a grant to study at Yale and Harvard, and within a year the most famous person in the world, Charlie Chaplin, asked him to collaborate on a screenplay. He chafed under authority, so he got the BBC to let him do a Letter from America, in which he'd talk for 15 minutes a week on whatever he liked...
...making millions of strangers feel they knew him. That's the talent of a politician more than a journalist. But as The Unseen Alistair Cooke reveals, the man was no rabble-rouser. He was a rabble-raiser. People on the other end of one of Alistair Cooke's tours felt smarter and warmer, thinking they knew...
...Ridker said that since this the study examined healthy individuals, researchers generally anticipate low short-term rates of disease. He added that the effect was “so striking between active therapy and placebo that an independent monitoring board felt compelled to stop the trial early, also resulting in low event rates...
...with three minutes to go in the fourth quarter and the Bulldogs ahead 29-13, the Game—the final appearance for Skowronski and his senior teammates—seemed to be headed towards an inevitable Crimson defeat. “I felt totally crushed,” Harvard’s former center says. “This was the most important game of my life, and I was realizing that my career was over.”But with 42 seconds left, destiny intervened, the momentum shifted, and the Crimson staged a comeback...