Word: pleasantness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Lopes, a pleasant-looking woman in her 60s, tells a classic immigrant's tale of sacrifice for the next generation. She speaks through an interpreter, MAPS Director of Social Services Claudia Lobo...
...reading in autumn: the round bench built around a tree in Radcliffe Yard. The gnarled tree offers an endless variety of back support, pleasant long after library chairs have been exhausted. Perfect for Thursday afternoons with a book...
...their introductory pages, both authors argue that birding is more than a pleasant way to spend time outdoors. Birders, they say, tend to evolve into conservationists, eager to protect the habitats that sustain avian life. This may be preaching to the choir, but these guides should attract some eager new singers...
...thing I did on "Conan" with the lips, they're like funny visual gimmicks that kind of make it fun, it just keeps me interested. I was really getting fried on sketch comedy when Conan came along, and the idea of doing sketches that way was just such a pleasant diversion. That's like a vaudeville bit, that Bill Clinton thing that I do. But I like playing with silly visual tricks, and this is just one more where I'm combining puppets and animals. This thing is basically practical jokes on live animals. I love all creatures. I love...
...know whether their marriage will survive should perhaps check their stress hormones. According to a recent study that examined the effects of stress on marriage, rising stress-hormone levels can be a predictor of divorce. Women whose levels rose while they were discussing their relationships, even in a pleasant way, were twice as likely to get divorced as women whose hormones remained constant...