Word: unleasher
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...This seems like the kind of neighborhood in which home defense is enthusiastically practiced. The glow of good feeling fading, I wind down the hill to NAN No. 2, at an intersection in the leafy neighborhood of East Washington Village. I pull up to the southeast corner and unleash my laptop's sniffer. Nothing. Feeling increasingly foolish, I wheel my car to the three other corners, which yield nothing, nothing and nothing. I look at my odometer. I have driven 52 miles. I head for home...
...nature of the syndrome is that as you go through college, you occasionally come across a stumbling block on the way to your goals—a bad grade, an internship rejection, a nasty break-up—fill your favorite disappointment in the blank. These disappointments unleash the self-esteem gremlin, who mockingly says, “Ha! I told you that you would fail. Doesn’t [disappointment from above] show that you really don’t have what it takes? Face it-you’re just not good enough...
...hasn’t felt like a crisis situation yet,” Carlson says. “They’ll come out of the woodwork and unleash some of that fury and anger if a shovel is planted into the ground...
...still hope that Yasser Arafat could ever be Israel's partner in peace, but many now feel that his predicament could become the catalyst of a much larger conflict. If it began to unfold, it could unleash pent-up forces and take on a disastrous momentum of its own. When the possibility arose that Arafat might be killed in the ruins of his headquarters, there was undisguised panic among Arab governments. What they dreaded also greatly alarmed their European counterparts, as well as the U.S. and even the Israelis themselves: uncontrollable mass demonstrations in Arab capitals that might compel reluctant...
...censorious superego you shouldn't have to look too far to find a subversive underlying id-the perfect description of Jack Neo, an actor, writer and director who doesn't keep much of anything inside. Ask him about any topic-sex, money, Big Brother-and he'll unleash his Gatling gun laugh. And that's what Singaporeans adore about Neo: the fact that he's willing to be their megaphone on the issues of daily life in jokes, on his popular TV shows and in hit films...