Word: unbinding
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Bassi transferred from Tennessee to Harvard after her freshman year but was required to sit out of intercollegiate competition her sophomore year because of her transfer. Tennessee could have chosen to unbind Bassi from the requirement, but they refused...
...joke about enemies lists and firing squads. But as the line "making a list and checking it twice" evokes images of jolly St. Nick, not of belligerent Benito, I think we're justified in assuming that Peninsula's goal was not really to inspire all good men to unbind their faces. Peninsula well deserves the contempt this latest stunt has brought them, but it's hard to believe that their sophomoric hyperbole intimidated anyone...
Both play at wing forward--a position requiring strength, since it's a part of the scrum, as well as speed, since wing forwards are the first to unbind and pursue when the ball leaves the scrum...
...separate the Chinese from such dubious delights, Sun Yat-sen and his followers included abolition of footbinding in a portmanteau program of feminine emancipation. Even then, millions of women obdurately refused to unbind-and not only because letting the feet out was almost as painful as binding them up. They simply feared that if they lost the lotus they would lose their man. As it turned out, most men were secretly pleased to have a wife who could also stand up and do housework...
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