Word: mentalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earlier matches against Colgate, Cornell and Fordham, the Crimson suffered from second-half mental lapses that forced its offense to struggle and its defense to lag. After gaining commanding leads over its opponents, Harvard then committed grievous turnovers and penalties that nullified any hope of validating the hard...
Last month's Harvard football team would have continued to make careless mental mistakes throughout the second half, but Saturday's team was different...
There would be no more second-half mental lapses Saturday...
...Alzheimer's disease afflicts some 4 million Americans, most of them over the age of 65. They may range from a former President to a neighbor next door, but the ailment is always the same: it clutters the brain with tiny bits of protein, slowly robbing victims of their mental power until they are no longer able to do even the simplest chores or recognize their closest friends and kin. So far, medical science has been stymied, unable to treat the disease or slow its fatal progression...
...tell my kid, but sometimes I sneak into her room to do a little mental redecorating in anticipation of the day when she goes off to college. (That's several years in the future, but the way I see it, it's never too early to measure for draperies.) Like lots of parents, I assume that my kid's childhood will neatly end at the campus gates, at which time I will join the Peace Corps, take swing-dancing lessons and never again utter the words "Why? Because I said so!" But the transition from childhood to college is seldom...