Word: pleasants
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...only after I had heard three good things that had happened to each of them. Some days the best I heard was, "Well, lunch didn't suck." But I can attest to the long-term effects. For the next three years, our ride home was far more pleasant. And when my now 21-year-old daughter calls to talk about things going wrong, she always brightens her mood by relating something good. Happiness is a habit best learned early...
...them are in the morning. For morning people, making a 9:15 a.m. exam refreshed after a solid eight hours of sleep is as easy as a Fairy Tales final. For the rest of us, stumbling into Science Center C at 9:15 in the morning is about as pleasant as being Prince Harry at a Holocaust memorial. You study for hours, yet all you can remember is that song you heard on the radio the day before. Maybe it was Ace of Base? Dates, facts, basic grammatical constructions, all sneak out of your brain like rats following the tune...
...there's the prospect that some tinkering by Roche might make him even better. Though he mostly ignores approaches from the media, Roche has a good-guy image; friends speak of a calm man who's always pleasant to be around. In the case of their alliance, it's clear that Federer did the chasing and that Roche, who has a low-profile role with Tennis Australia coaching some of the country's most promising juniors at his home, needed a lot of convincing to hop back on the merry-go-round...
...able to think of something more complementary or reassuring than the label of “good person.” While exceedingly simple, something most first-graders would recognize, the phrases sum up a person far better than rambling on about how they are bright, clever, funny, or pleasant...
Indeed, the University has employed policies specifically designed to make the experience for female faculty members more pleasant. “Harvard has done many good things in terms of leave policy and child care,” Narayanamurti says. “People are taking advantage...