Word: grooms
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...former Ivy League Player of the Year may be gone, but the offensive front line that protected him remains entirely intact. Teams can groom quarterbacks and overcome some growing pains behind center. Inexperience on the offensive line, however, means aches and pains for both the backfield and the win-loss record...
Armed with an endless list of rules and strategies, they join in all the festivities from making toasts to instructing the bride and groom on reception niceties. The stated goal may be manipulation to produce copulation with a starry-eyed wedding attendee, but the boys’ attention to detail is normally reserved for the bride herself...
...self-interest. But De Waal has also observed behavior that can be seen only as empathetic. When a male loses a fight and sits on the floor screaming, the other chimps will comfort it. "They come over to these distressed individuals and embrace them and kiss them and groom them, and try to calm them down," De Waal says. True, there's an implied benefit for the comforters--the hope that others will do the same for them if they end up in that situation--but that's a level of emotional abstraction that would once have been presumed impossible...
...thoughtfulness and utter lack of pretension. She wore a T shirt, for example, that proclaimed I'M SANDRA, NOT RUTH, to poke fun at advocates who would confuse the court's two female Justices. She attended her clerks' birthdays and weddings whenever she could; at one, she asked the groom's father for a ride. The car was packed, but when he tried to make her take the front seat, she insisted it go to his wife and happily squeezed into the middle in back. Each spring, she took the clerks to see Washington's celebrated cherry blossoms, and when...
...heaters kept out the chill breeze off Nantucket Sound. Inside, fruit trees in full pink-and-white bloom gave the lie to the weather, and a sumptuous lunch was capped by an eight-tier wedding cake weighing a whopping 425 lbs. and topped by the traditional bride and groom figures...