Word: reverting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They had to revert to the standard excuse, which is that the other team made plays and they didn't. That excuse only works once, however, and Harvard used up its quota a week before...
...years ago were dismissed as primitive apelike brutes. But contemporary science saw them in a better light. With brains as large as ours, they apparently cared for their sick, made simple jewelry and buried their dead--perhaps in quasi-religious ceremonials. Now, however, we may have to revert to the more savage image. According to a report in last week's Science, at least some Neanderthals butchered, ate and disposed of their kin as if they were so much slaughtered game...
...really wrong. But moderation is neither inspiring nor tasty. Most of us, lacking an urgent health reason to behave (e.g., recurring shortness of breath or pains in the chest), are liberals in the practice of moderation and harbor in ourselves the latent impulses of Farouk the Indulger. We revert to bad habits when the conscience naps, especially since the buildup of cholesterol and heart blockages occurs silently, invisibly, in the dark chambers of the chest...
...Harvard we define ourselves by our communities more than anything else. We cling to the friends, structure and intimacy provided by smaller niches, islands of calm in the sea of Harvard life. For some reason, in the last month of each term, we sever these ties, dropping everything to revert back to primal, egoistic selves...
...Harvard we define ourselves by our communities more than anything else. We cling to the friends, structure and intimacy provided by smaller niches, islands of calm in the sea of Harvard life. For some reason, in the last month of each term, we sever these ties, dropping everything to revert back to primal, egoistic selves...