Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth is, this kid was good," says Randy Brown. "He had a strong, manipulative personality. He could convince his dad of anything." After Harris cracked Brooks' car windshield with that ice ball last winter, for instance, Harris told his father that he thought he was throwing a harmless snowball. His dad believed him, but Judy Brown didn't. "You can pull the wool over your father's eyes," she told Eric, "but you can't pull it over mine." He pretended to be offended. "You calling me a liar?" he demanded. "Yes, I suppose I am," she said. Harris stomped...
Valdez charged, intercepted the fan in short center, lifted him over his head and body-slammed him into the grass. Anyone who has been to a goodly number of baseball games has seen this usually harmless baseball drama play itself out before...
Alas--or, might we say, "Jamnation!"--the Resume Contest offers about as much wish-fulfillment as the Kendo Club offers lewd entertainment. The poster directs interested students to a Web site, where the whole thing turns out to be a disappointingly harmless psychological test. Yet there remains something eerie about it, perhaps even more so after it becomes clear that the whole thing comes no closer to fulfilling our fantasies than the promises of free hot phone sex. Psychological researchers presumably designed this poster in order to capture our attention, and the method they devised...
...most obvious response to such criticisms is that the game has the potential to remain harmless and fun if only those playing could take it less seriously. True enough, yet the game is specifically designed to be both intense and prolonged. Rather than having one big barbecue which features a shoot-out or various games, Quincy House assassin typically lasts between two and three weeks during one of the most important academic times of the semester, leading up to Spring exams. Furthermore, the assassin council website lists hitmen who spend whole days of their final semester at Harvard roaming around...
Biologist Gregory Pincus had his hands full in 1950, when the Planned Parenthood organization gave him $30,000 and told him to develop a contraceptive that was "harmless, entirely reliable, and aesthetically satisfactory to husband and wife." Within 10 years, however, Pincus and his colleagues delivered, inventing the drug that sparked the sexual revolution. Introduced in the U.S. in 1960, the birth control pill, known simply as the Pill, was an ovulation-suppressing mix of estrogen and progestin that was 99% effective...