Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goes back to the desire to nest, to revel in the comforts of home--priorities that have come to define the 1990s. And it's why coffeemakers that automatically grind the beans before brewing will get more attention this year than they have in the past. Our standards are higher, and we're ready to upgrade. The result is a kitchen that's more Jetsons than Julia Child...
What do you do to relax, just get your mind off the daily grind of touring...
...Sara is 16, and what she's into is an anesthetic sometimes administered to people but, more commonly, to cats and monkeys. Generically called ketamine, street K is most often diverted in liquid form from vets' offices or medical suppliers. Dealers dry the liquid (usually by cooking it) and grind the residue into powder. K causes hallucinations because it blocks chemical messengers in the brain that carry sensory input; the brain fills the resulting void with visions, dreams, memories, whatever. Sara says that once, after snorting several "bumps" of K, she thought other kids on the dance floor had been...
Though some of the contributions described here were the result of a few bursts of inspiration, there is not one that would have reached fulfillment were it not for the sense of personal responsibility that fueled its originator's persistence during the day-by-day grind necessary for success. In this, medicine is no different than any other form of endeavor. For when all is said and done, it is the perspiration that makes the difference. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow made the point much more elegantly...
...didn't even have any homework. On the early morning of Sunday the 14th-arguably the last day of leisure before the grind of schoolwork began-Harvard students were living it up at several parties down by the River. But the joy was short-circuited. Four parties, in Adams, Kirkland, Leverett and Winthrop Houses were broken up between midnight and 1 a.m. by Harvard police on request from tutors in the houses...