Search Details

Word: decompression (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...We’ve been increasingly cramped in the present case—the specimens have been packed together, making it hard to access and work on them,” Hanken said. “We’ve needed to decompress them...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Collections To Find New Home in Northwest Science Building | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

Students stood in a small line in Lamont Cafe last night, awaiting the chance to decompress under the helping hands of the Stressbusters—a team of Harvard students offering free five to seven-minute backrubs...

Author: By Devon M. Newhouse, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Offer Backrubs To Bust Stress | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...however, may be placed in a sort of halfway house for old fighters - a place like Tiffany McBee's Broken Hearts, Mended Souls Rescue in Fulton, Mo. Programs like McBee's will try to prepare the abused dogs for adoption, which doesn't happen overnight. "They need time to decompress" from the stress of their violent upbringing and the cacophony of the warehouse, McBee explains. An animal that was raised in secret, hidden in remote woods, tethered by heavy chain to a buried axle, suddenly finds itself chilling in suburbia. "They have to learn: What is a couch? What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Attack Dogs Be Rehabilitated? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...fathers. Taking care of a home is tedious, wearing, and it never ends, and when you are solely responsible for that, it can piss you off. So any husband, who legitimately feels like he's toiling away all day, comes home and says, "I just need an hour to decompress," - well, welcome to never getting laid again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ayelet Waldman: Bad Mother | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

...about Obama's plans to "change" Washington. Once the cameras stop rolling, he retreats to his office for a moment alone to power down. "There is a pretty big adrenaline rush when you are out there," he says. "You do need about half an hour to just sort of decompress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President's Warrior, Robert Gibbs | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next