Word: grind
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AIRING IT OUT If you're starting to overheat from the back-and-forth grind of business travel, the Kensington FlyFan ($25) may be just what the flight attendant ordered. It's powered by a laptop's USB port and cuts the air with 1 1/2-in.-wide blades made of fabric (so you can't cut yourself). You won't get there any faster, but at least you will look cool...
It’s been four years since I crossed the stage in stiletto heels to be crowned Mr. Tiger Beauty Queen 1998. I’m still telling dirty jokes and swinging my hips. I grind at gay dance clubs and I am far too affectionate with my gay friends in public. Were my stereotypically homosexual traits a defense mechanism, I suspect they would have peeled off by now in Harvard’s gay-friendly atmosphere. But questions about my behavior and its origin seem irrelevant these past four months. When my mother had her will finalized...
...story of the sinful origins of their “lavish lifestyle” (is that what we consider drug addiction to be?). Now your columnists can’t seem to get enough of the humiliation in store for them and have jumped on this opportunity to grind axes against the people who seek attention, dress expensively and don’t acknowledge them in the halls. Grand larceny is indeed a crime, but their self-righteousness and sheer spite is unwarranted and tiresome. Given that the two students in question are facing decade-long sentences if convicted, it?...
...those in the developing world. On campuses throughout the U.S., that has become the conventional wisdom: free trade, which is the motor of globalization, drives down wages, promotes sweatshop and child labor and is, broadly speaking, a conspiracy on the part of rapacious corporate managers and wealthy shareholders to grind the faces of the poor...
...Holocaust survivors - compared to barely a third of Israel's over-60s generally. A similar imbalance was found in the country's other mental hospitals. Decades of using antipsychotic drugs like haloperidol and Thorazine hadn't worked. In the lobby of the survivors' ward, patients still shake uncontrollably and grind their jaws grotesquely from the side effects of such drugs. Barak changed the diagnosis of schizophrenia attached to most of the 120 survivors in his ward to "long-term post-traumatic psychosis." With Szor, he treated the patients using animal therapy, allowing people previously unable to communicate to build relationships...