Word: smothered
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That morning cup of coffee might smell better after you get up from bed. It has been shown that lying down can dampen such senses as hearing and spatial perception, and now researchers have found that reclining can also smother your ability to pick up odors. More than 60% of test subjects sniffing rose odor had decreased sensitivity to the smell when recumbent. The phenomenon could be the body's way of turning off potential distractions while you're trying to fall asleep, or it might be the result of fluids that rush through the brain while you're supine...
...distributed free burgers during the hourlong contest. With the likes of “Heartbreak Heidi” (Heidi E. Kim ’09), “The Ching Chow Constrictor,” “B-Ravenous,” and “The Earth Smother,” the contest was ironically reminiscent of a hot dog or buffalo wing-eating contest. Said contestant “Miss Mary Smack” of Allston: “I am an eating machine.” Cheering her on was her roller derby team, garbed...
...backup.”To know Martin starred on national roller hockey teams before arriving at Harvard is to get a good idea of Martin’s style in net: she plays with the fearlessness and abandon of an in-liner, often diving way outside the crease to smother loose pucks and getting into the occasional shoving match with an oncoming winger. “I’m basically a whatever-it-takes kind of person,” Martin says. “It’s just natural. As a goalie, your first instinct is just...
...then-Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, author Brian Melendez ’86 cited the “Harvard milieu” as one of the barriers to the creation of a code.“The self-reliance and self-interest of the Harvard student might smother an honor code before it had a chance to grow and thrive,” Melendez wrote.Paula F. Popescu ’07, a transfer student from Wellesley College, agreed with this assessment.“My opinion is that it might not work,” she said...
...schools invite them to address students in class on their field of expertise. The logic is simple: the kids will learn something, and so, hopefully, will the parents - about the challenges of teaching. A primary teacher wrote two pages of grievances against parents before concluding: "As a self-confessed smother mother, I've been guilty of several of the above transgressions." When steam's not pouring from their ears, even teachers will concede that parents act in nearly all cases out of passionate concern for their child. What they wish parents would understand is that teachers...