Word: lets
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...think [our team] got a little determined," Wheaton said. "I think they thought, 'Hey, we're not going to let them push us around. We've got something to prove and let...
Soon the Quakers picked up the pace and won seven straight points to come within 12-9. Harvard would not let the game slip from its grasp and closed out, 15-10, for a 1-0 lead in the match...
...more fragile than family ties, may increase its value. "Friendship contributes more to people's happiness in old age than their family relationships do," says Rebecca Adams, sociology professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. "If we don't like our friends, we terminate the relationships or let them fade, so the ones we're left with are often fairly positive compared with family relationships, which we can't terminate." Furthermore, we tend to feel more gratitude for a friend's kindness than for a relative's. "If a family member comes over to help us when...
...child. There were still a few pinball machines left amid the new video games. Somehow, I didn't have the urge to drop in a single coin. But I did imagine a time when I could take my own kids down to the beach and let them play to their hearts' content...
...Let me explain. Elections are not feel-good exercises in which people "finish less than first." People lose elections, and negative ads serve the positive purpose of clearly arguing which candidate should. As this magazine's TV critic, I always like to see a new generation pay homage to the classics; for instance, that pro-Bush group's "remake" of Daisy, the 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson ad that targeted Barry Goldwater as a dangerous extremist. Both ads cut from a little girl picking petals off a daisy to footage of a nuclear explosion. The new version accused Clinton and Gore...