Word: leverence
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...think you're going to see the Radcliffe Institute being the lever to make Harvard do things in its other schools," she said. "Its role will not be to be a monitor, an agitator, a scolder...
...find a place that felt sturdy enough to support the jack. I didn't find one, so I just put the jack about six inches under the rear passenger door. This particular jack was made to be compact, and because of this, it requires rotating a small lever for approximately 45 minutes in order to raise the car one inch off the ground. Eventually, I got the old wheel off, and I only sliced my right hand once while trying to remove the hubcap...
...number of different reels on the great slot machine of love is increasing out of control. But, ironically, people are more willing than ever to pull the lever, reset the machine and take their chances. We draw a match in high school, but we pull the lever again because, we imagine, there might be a bigger jackpot in college. In college we draw another match, but we let ourselves get distracted, don't cash out in time and pretty soon we're pulling again. That's alright, we imagine, we've got all night to play-nowadays no one leaves...
...This Sunday, resolve not to succumb to the reckless indifference that Stacey's theory allows. Pulling that lever and taking another shot may cost far more than you think, and you might never see those cherries again...
...LUCKMAN, 89, entrepreneur and architect who designed Madison Square Garden and Florida's Kennedy Space Center; in Los Angeles. Trained in architecture, Luckman first made his name (and the cover of TIME) selling soap as a sales manager at Pepsodent, and then returned to his first love after commissioning Lever House, one of Manhattan's first glass skyscrapers. In the late 1960s, he inadvertently fueled a national campaign for historic preservation with his design for the Garden, a monstrosity that replaced McKim, Mead and White's steel and glass-canopied gem, Penn Station...