Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kids of lousy parents grow up to be killers. Thus some researchers suspect that biology plays a strong role. Psychologist Robert Hare of the University of British Columbia has completed a study in which he and an associate monitored the brain waves of psychopaths as they responded to emotion-laden words, such as rape, cancer, death, and neutral words like table and chair. The team found that normal people responded quickly to emotional words; the psychopaths showed no such activity -- all words were neutral...
...least there was a textbook in the reaction-laden Chem 17, and the theory-emphasized 20-30 sequence. But here, lo, there is no text. The diligent orgo student is dazed and confused--how can I regurgitate the information if I have no text...
...over everything has loomed the sorry spectacle of Tonya and Nancy. Their contretemps is not only a living metaphor for tarnished ideals of sport but also a depressing reminder that a litigation-mad and bureaucracy-laden society has if anything diminished its means of extracting plain truth in timely fashion. Whatever the ultimate twist of their tortuous saga, it seems certain that the contest they both sought so ardently to win will unfold without decisive evidence of Harding's innocence or guilt. The satisfying simplicity of sport, with its winners and losers and tangible numbers and seemingly objective results...
...Laden with individual talent, backed by a proud winning tradition and a proven coach, the Crimson has shown flashes of brilliance throughout the year. It has held many convincing leads and made many spectacular plays. But like the ball to the warning track, Harvard Just had not gotten the job done; its 0-5 Ivy League start was its worst ever...
...heard Medgar's Oldsmobile pull into the driveway. Then a rifle fired from a honeysuckle thicket some 200 ft. away. Myrlie ran to the door and saw her 37-year-old husband, bloody and dying, slump toward the steps, his car keys still in hand. His arms had been laden with T shirts reading jim crow must go. The children ran out, crying "Daddy, Daddy, please get up, Daddy!" When he died, Mrs. Evers noted in her testimony, Medgar Evers was working for the simplest things: to have black school-crossing guards, to make it possible for blacks...