Word: mortalizes
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Despite the loss in projected revenue, Forkner said that the cancellation would be far from a mortal blow for the HPT and that the group is not planning a major fundraising campaign to compensate...
...like years on end of Marine boot camp, where the values of the group are instilled at the expense of the values brought to the experience by each individual entering it. In the presence of teachers who exemplify the fighter-pilot mentality of success in the face of mortal danger, the idealism and even the humanity become imperiled. Too often, they are leached out in the long indoctrination. The best become like their teachers: they worship at the shrine of scientific objectivity, and they wrap themselves in a mantle of depersonalization that allows them to carry on despite the carnage...
...Achilles' heel, so to speak, is hemorrhoids. The King recommended a doctor and sent his private jet to take El Guerrouj to him. Of course, he could have afforded to get there himself. His lungs and legs earn him about $2 million a year. But when a mere mortal is up there with NASA or Boeing, well, you roll out the royal red carpet...
...have been a fan of Tiger's since he was an amateur, and I get tired of everyone taking shots at him. You pinpointed the important issues and blocked out the unimportant ones. Tiger's accomplishments are so phenomenal that even his strongest opponents forget that he is merely mortal and entitled to mistakes. Thank you for capturing the person. BETTY JO SOLDANO Jamestown...
...padded away, and I sat for a few minutes in my gown, feeling mortal, the way you do if you're 57 and scantily clad, sitting in bright light. I could imagine that a pea-size tumor in my innards had sprouted and sent evil tendrils shooting through the lymph nodes, and now dense jungle growths had a grip on my vitals and in a few months people would sit in an Episcopal church and softly weep for me and then have a nice lunch. I was almost to the scattering of the ashes when the doctor walked...