Word: wrenchingly
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...have flown out of my head before I even reach the bean dip? What does it mean if I walk into a room on an errand of some kind and discover that I can't remember if I came in for a dictionary, a soup spoon or a socket wrench? After a certain age, does everyone's cranial zip disc start to fill up? Or worse, can mundane, mid-life memory glitches actually be warning signs of such later-life dementia as Alzheimer's disease...
...Clark, the poster child for immutability, suddenly began to degenerate like the portrait of Dorian Gray? We'd be appalled. And none of us really wants our President, Bill Clinton, to change even one iota. No one wants to see him toiling monastically on his memoirs or with a wrench in his hand, building low-income housing for Habitat for Humanity. We expect and desire him, once he's thrown off the trammels of the presidency, to become the great Casanova (at least the great Bubbanova) of the Western world (at least the West Coast), noshing on marzipan...
...throws a wrench in their PR machine," said McKean, who is also a Crimson editor. "[Pre-frosh weekend] represents a moment of extreme vulnerability for the administration--they [have] people here they desperately want to impress...
...more likely to advance the Republican platform than McCain. Granted, the two platforms are reasonably similar, with the only difference that the Democratic tilts slightly towards the impractical and disorganized left while the Republican tilts slightly towards the mean-spirited and bigoted right. Of course, the Internet throws a wrench into everyone's political calculus. No wait, it doesn...
Certainly it would be easier for the school not to allow coed housing because of the inevitable conflicts of throwing the proverbial wrench of gender and relationships into the housing mix. But if the school is unwilling to make the lifestyle choice for us--in the form of a curfew or parietal rules--the least it can do is let us have the choice. As a general rule, laws should conform to the reality of their application. Whenever people learn that laws don't have to be obeyed--as is the case now with drinking--the ability of administrators...