Word: objectional
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Textbook kleptomaniacs will steal an item and immediately throw it away. It is the act, not the object, that satisfies their impulse. "Kleptomaniacs might have started stealing on a dare as kids," says Dr. Jon Grant, a director of the Impulse Control Disorder clinic at the University of Minnesota Medical School, "but it becomes so pleasurable that the addiction takes over their actions...
...Crimson readers to hear that department faculty views were not unanimous. Strong differences of opinion on controversial matters are to be expected in a community of serious-minded thinking people, as our department faculty is. In the present case, some members of the department did in fact strongly object to the decision not to hold the reading as scheduled, even as others believed that the end result was the best result under the circumstances...
Immediately after this, another suspect threatened the Harvard undergraduate with a knife, taking out an object that appeared to be a knife and making slashing motions...
...victims were able to positively identify the remaining suspects, and HUPD arrested one of them—the individual who had displayed an object which appeared to be a knife...
...garbage can. Line it if you are sanitation-conscious. Mix all ingredients in the garbage can. Ice to taste. Mix with a shovel or similarly large object...