Word: mimic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complex interplay between hormones and aggression. As a group, the young males gave more belligerent answers than did the females on a multiple-choice test in which they had to imagine their response to stressful situations. But siblings who had been exposed in utero to synthetic antimiscarriage hormones that mimic testosterone were the most combative of all. The affected boys proved significantly more aggressive than their unaffected brothers, and the drug-exposed girls were much more contentious than their unexposed sisters. Reinisch could not determine, however, whether this childhood aggression would translate into greater ambition or competitiveness in the adult...
...volunteers would benefit from having some awareness of the social and political issues that affected the communities in which they did their volunteer work. I was promptly attacked in the Crimson for trying to inappropriately "politicize" public service. The paper also suggested that under my leadership volunteer training might mimic a "party line" with Brooks House as a "central planning office." This used to be called red-baiting. (So much for the liberal campus media...
...elder brother. "He's a born optimist, a fighter, with a huge zest for life," says his father Patrick. That description is echoed by former cellmate Brian Keenan, an Irishman who was released last year. Says Keenan: "He is the daftest, craziest man I ever met." And a marvelous mimic too: "I never knew if I was playing dominoes against Sigmund Freud or Peter Sellers. Without him I don't think I would have made...
...riot illuminates long-simmering hostilities between Washington's Latino underclass and the black power structure. Many African-American residents were shocked to learn that Hispanics have a list of grievances against them that mimic black complaints about discrimination by whites. Hispanics complain that they hold only 1% of the jobs in local government though they constitute 5% of the population. They also say they are routinely harassed by the mostly black police force...
...problem, Prince directs the play in slow-motion, forgetting that theater should not mimic real life. Theater, it has been said, is real life with the boring bits cut out. Unfortunately, Family Secrets gives us nothing but boring bits. We see Diane dig through old boxes, we see Theresa walk slowly up the stairs, and we can do nothing but writhe in bored agony...