Word: gracing
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...area in recent years." Englischers (i.e., the non-Amish) might have steered Lettie into a psychiatrist's office for a course of Prozac. But Lettie's large family has other modes of counsel: talking and cooking and harvesting and raising barns and praying together. Her 21-year-old daughter Grace holds the family together with her steely determination; Judah, Lettie's uncommunicative husband, suffers her absence deeply...
Like her fellow chroniclers of the Amish, Lewis proves that it isn't necessary to lace every scene with lust to keep the reader's attention. Grace's suitor in The Secret tenderly proposes to her without ever having kissed her. "'Tis mighty gut," he says with deep affection. "Will you agree to be my bride?" That scene is not likely to be repeated outside Lancaster County anytime soon, but Bird-in-Hand is an appealing place for a jaded Englischer to escape to for a while - which is part of the romance, after...
...term “cougar” cannot even claim originality as its saving grace. Feline metaphors—fox, puma, pussy—have long been applied to female sexuality. “Cougar” is merely the latest epithet in a long tradition of verbal constructs—slut, skank, whore—that construe women as sub-human sexual objects. Urban Dictionary defines the cougar in terms of the sexual stimulation that she provides to men and her lack of emotional attachment: Cougars “don’t expect you to call the next...
...London, Conn. over the weekend for the Thompson Trophy, hosted by the US Coast Guard Academy, where it earned a second-place team finish overall. The B-division boat also found success in this competition for Harvard, as the pair of senior skipper Jon Garrity and sophomore crew Grace Charles won the division by 20 points over Boston College. The duo finished among the top half of the 18-team field in all but one of their 18 races on the weekend, earning five victories along...
...only one other crew in the country has managed to do—beat Princeton in dual competition. With all the hard work and training, Radcliffe is starting to find its strongest rhythm yet.“I think we had a really solid piece,” junior Grace Hollowell said. “It was our best race to date.”In a race which the Black and White had not won in the last four years, nothing could thwart the lightweights.“We had a really solid week in practice coming...