Word: sapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David Winter, a research fellow in Psychology and Social Relations, said yesterday he did not have an explanation for spring fever but "you could make a human analogy to sap rising in trees, very similar to cabin fever...
Steinbeck's elaborations on Malory are often efforts to rationalize the characters or events. These explanations weaken the style of the book, sap its pace and deprive its people of any life undiagrammed by an omniscient author...
...personal conduct in everyday life. Ergo reprints each fall a sermon-like article by Wright, for the benefit of incoming freshmen. The article applies libertarian principles to college life, and finds it sadly collectivist: "There is, on university campuses today, a vicious killer loose: a destructive force that can sap the minds and souls of the strongest men. That killer is peer pressure. Do not say that you can value both your ideals and the approval of the group. The group will not have you on such terms--you must adapt to theirs...
Never tell a baseball fan that money cannot buy sappiness. By the time two of the game's richest teams and its most eccentric owner were through with what is already in the record books as the Tuesday Night Massacre, the only question was who was making a sap of whom...
Belgium's King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola were the first sceptered pair to visit the U.S. in 1976, followed this month by Sweden's rambling Rex, Carl XVI Gustaf, on a 26-day, 26-stop itinerary that would sap a Saab. Denmark's Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik will arrive May 9 for a nine-city tour winding up in the U.S. Virgin Islands, which were hornswoggled from their country for $25 million in 1916. Norway's Crown Prince Harald and Princess Sonja will explore Leif Ericson's land in June; earlier the same month, Spain's new King Juan...