Word: honed
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Serbian ethnic cleansers can draw on long evolutionary memory for tribal hatred: by now it must seem that hate, like other tribal features, is carried in the genes. Suburban tribes have to hone enmities on the spot, so they require immediate inducements. The killers must be perceived as weak and ridiculous on their own before they seek group protection and justice. The group's main reason for being becomes revenge...
Although she has frequently served as mastercarpenter for Harvard dramatic productions, shesaid her last performing role was as the hind endof a horse. Adams House's pool theater, she said,would be an ideal place to hone her acting skills...
Although she has frequently served as master carpenter for Harvard dramatic productions, she said her last performing role was as the hind end of a horse. Adams House's pool theater, she said, would be an ideal place to hone her acting skills...
...lonely pups, day-care centers provide companionship and hone the all-important social skills needed to play nicely--with humans and other canines. "She loves this place," says Michelle Bouchard, a New York City theater producer who regularly brings her dog to the day-care facility at the New York Dog Spa & Hotel in Manhattan--a growing business, with services ranging from pedicures to massage. "The irony is I got the dog so that my only child wouldn't be lonely. But now the dog's lonely when Alex goes to school...
Then he did something really unusual in the make-a-quick-billion computer industry. He made Linux available for free on the Internet. More important, he released his source code, the instruction set used to create the software, so that fellow programmers could hack, hone and redistribute Linux at will. In doing so he was following a freeware tradition that goes back to the earliest days of computing...