Word: ratting
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...Clothing was a natural. I thought about what's practical and what works. And there was really a need. There was definitely a yoga style - very "Flashdance." Lots of ripped shirts and women wearing men's underwear. I really wanted to step outside of gym rat mode. So much of what was out there was really revealing, lots of cut-off tops, and I definitely didn't want logos on everything...
Maybe it was self-defense, maybe it was common values, maybe it was the fact that my clothes didn’t hang right and my hair didn’t rat, but by the beginning of eighth grade I hung out almost exclusively with kids who had the same hair as I did, the same fair skin (my sixth grade friends called me Rudolph because of my perpetually sunburned nose) and the same-sounding last names...
...those rejecting the rat race to spend more time with their families, perhaps the most famous is Peter Lynch. While the 47-year-old investment superstar was busy building the Fidelity Magellan mutual fund into a $13 billion behemoth, his youngest daughter got to be seven years old, and he felt he hardly knew her. Last spring he stunned Wall Street when he decided to give up his 14-hour workdays. With a nest egg estimated at $50 million, Lynch could well afford to quit. But many ordinary people evidently felt a connection with what he did, for he received...
...scary place, and young kids are inherently fearful until they start to figure it out. If you are living with a generalized sense of danger, it can be profoundly therapeutic to find a single object on which to deposit all that unformed fear--a snake, a spider, a rat. A specific phobia becomes a sort of backfire for fear, a controlled blaze that prevents other blazes from catching. "The thinking mind seeks out a rationale for the primitive mind's unexplained experiences," says psychologist Steven Phillipson, clinical director of the Center for Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy in New York City...
...zelophobia: ... jealousy zemmiphobia: ... the great mole rat zeusophobia: ... God or gods zoophobia: ... animals...