Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then I found out how much it cost, and did the quick mental calculation that it was about equal to the cost of two or three large pizzas. That, I think, is a lot of dough for a fern...
...other hand, is an American version of squash played on a narrower court. The harder ball means a faster game which emphasizes reflexes and speed and demands a shorter swing. It also allows luck to play a greater role. For Ezra, the switch between soft and hardball is normally mental. "I have to get into the frame of mind of playing a long match," Ezra says, describing his thoughts going into a softball match...
...portrays, if briefly and discreetly, the mental problems that beset Lincoln and his wife. It acknowledges their marital troubles. It describes Lincoln as lazy, lacking in ambition, needing prodding to seek office. It depicts him as ideologically cautious and passive, resistant to reform, hesitant even to take up the abolitionist cause against slavery. Sherwood was echoing the populist message of Frank Capra's contemporaneous films, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: the only hero to trust is one who doesn't want the job. But Sherwood was also humanizing an outsize figure, pointing out that...
...problem is exacerbated by the character of local government. Anyone who has dealt with a local zoning board or a state-level bureaucracy knows that such bodies are hardly Institutions (with a capital `I') worthy of respect, so much as institutions (as in "mental') for those with pathologically underdeveloped intellects and overdeveloped egos. How are folks like the cloven-hooved aspiring-deacons of the Williamson County Commission supposed to hold their own against the likes of Apple and its army of Ivy-league lawyer/consultant mercenaries? It's as though Homer Simpson were to take on Gary Kasparov in a chess...
According to captain Tarik Campbell, it has to do with mental attitude. "We have a young team this year with a couple of new guys. We need to get to the point where we get the killer instinct. I have no doubt it will come, but I just hope it's sooner rather than later...