Word: leanse
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A cop holds up mid-afternoon traffic on Elm Street for fifteen minutes, and a woman leans out the window of her Chevy to ask what is going on. The Bush motorcade appears in the distance, approaches, passes by at twenty miles an hour. Eleven police cars with flashing lights...
Meanwhile, the man leans forward, preparing to kiss the woman's exposed throat. His hand, placed on her thigh, apparently supports her leg. His other hand might be anywhere.
A few minutes later, social-services lawyer Donna Purnell tries to cut past Emily's reluctance to admit what she believes happened. "Are you scared that if you tell, you won't go home?" she asks? Emily nods yes. "If you said something to Betsy, would you be scared to...
"The world has changed," muses Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals, as he leans back in his brown leather armchair, in his office in Memorial Church. "And I've changed with it."
How do you keep your professional distance when your employer feels it is O.K. to constantly touch you, or leans in too close at your desk?