Word: waywards
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...Surri fails to accomplish something Doc asks--say, cleaning out the car or working in the garden--he might spank her or stand her in the corner as though she were a wayward child. When she succeeds, he might call her a "good girl" or give her a small gift. ("I filled out one of those online profiles that ask for your favorite quote, and mine was 'Good girl,'" says Surri. "Hearing [Doc] say that makes me happier than anything else in the world.") Surri, who turns 38 this month, particularly enjoys such "age play" when...
Recent renovations replaced an ugly gray ceiling with one that more aesthetically pleasing, as well as higher. Although Millman says the main motivation behind the renovation was to make the club look nicer, it has the added advantage of presenting less of a danger to wayward guitars...
...women’s college was in desperate need of a name change in 1893—before then-University President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, dubbed it Radcliffe, it was known as “X College.” A century later, Harvard’s wayward daughter has been fully merged into the University, but its physical legacy—the dormitories up Garden Street—remains an X factor...
...looking at Harvard and other Ivies, it’s different in what some of the Ivy schools are able to do for the kids in admissions that Harvard can’t do,” says baseball coach Walsh. The Ivy League uses the AI to keep wayward admissions officials in line. The first rule is the floor—raised from 169 to 171 this summer. If an applicant’s AI score is below 171 (equivalent to an 1140 SAT I, an average SAT II score just over 570 and grades...
...mobilize the faithful and harden the lines of Roman Catholic dogma. In the face of the Protestant challenge, the inquiring spirit of the High Renaissance had been overtaken by the dogmas of the Council of Trent. Eager to exploit the power of art but wary all the same of wayward artists, Rome operated like the old Hays office in Hollywood, mandating what could be shown and how to show it. Spain in particular was a cockpit of militant piety, the forcing ground for St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, as well as for the mysticism of St. Teresa...