Word: waywardness
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...shut it down until Republicans agreed to reverse January’s rule changes which “effectively neutered the committee,” in the words of one Democrat. In truth, however, the vote symbolizes the end of the GOP’s support for its wayward son, DeLay. The reversal of rules that limited the committee’s investigative purview will likely precipitate a much needed House investigation of the controversial Republican leader...
...medications, but nothing seemed to work very well or for very long. Then last June she heard about an experimental treatment being tested at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University. It involved aiming a powerful magnet at a spot on the brain to reset the wayward neural circuits that keep Martha, and millions like her, stuck in the downward spiral of depression...
...exploiting a loophole in the admissions website that allowed them to access their admissions’ decisions early—sound an awful lot like that little kid who sneaks into the kitchen just before dinner and gets his hand caught in the cookie jar. And just like that wayward child, the people rejected for their actions are protesting with every excuse in the book. But where we might be willing to forgive the child in his youth and ignorance, these excuses should not suffice for the HBS applicants, and HBS should be applauded for taking a hard stance against...
Adapted and expanded from Santiago-Hudson's 2001 one-man stage show, Blues recalls his childhood in an upstate New York boardinghouse in the 1950s and '60s. His surrogate mother, Rachel (Nanny) Crosby (S. Epatha Merkerson), gives an ersatz family of wayward, mostly African-American drifters shelter, hot meals and toughlove. The youngest is little Ruben (an astute Marcus Carl Franklin), whom Nanny delivers in an upstairs room, then takes in when neither of his young parents proves mature enough to raise...
Scientists have known for some time about the 700-mile-long fault off the coast of Washington, Oregon and California, where a wayward slab of the earth's crust known as the Juan de Fuca plate is trying to slide under continental North America. What they didn't appreciate until quite recently was that the juncture where the two plates are locked together can snap violently like a giant spring, unleashing a tsunami as large and terrifying as the one that pummeled South Asia...