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  2. The Coddling of the American Mind - Wikipedia

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    The term was coined by Pamela Paresky [8] and promulgated by The Coddling of the American Mind, [9] which described its status as "a sacred value", meaning that it was not possible to make practical tradeoffs or compromises with other desirable things (e.g., for people to be made to feel uncomfortable in support of free speech or learning new ...

  3. Loin - Wikipedia

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    The position of the loins. In human anatomy, the term "loin" or "loins" refers to the side of the human body below the rib cage to just above the pelvis. [1] It is frequently used to reference the general area below the ribs. The lumbar region of the spinal column is located in the loin area of the body. [9]

  4. Repertory grid - Wikipedia

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    The repertory grid is a technique for identifying the ways that a person construes (interprets or gives meaning to) his or her experience. [4] It provides information from which inferences about personality can be made, but it is not a personality test in the conventional sense.

  5. Jim Gaffigan on adjusting to the painful new reality: "How ...

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    And I'm an adult. I have children that are counting on me. I mean, they don't listen to me, but I can't just curl up in a ball and mope. Sometimes I'm embarrassed how detached I feel about it.

  6. Valence (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    The use of the term in psychology entered English with the translation from German ("Valenz") in 1935 of works of Kurt Lewin.The original German word suggests "binding", and is commonly used in a grammatical context to describe the ability of one word to semantically and syntactically link another, especially the ability of a verb to require a number of additional terms (e.g. subject and ...

  7. Gird your loins! Jockstraps are still holding up after 150 years

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    NEW YORK (AP) — Happy 150th birthday, dear jockstrap. How far you've come from your modest but mighty days of protecting the precious parts of bicycle messengers as they navigated the bumpy ...

  8. Grit (personality trait) - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, grit is a positive, non-cognitive trait based on a person's perseverance of effort combined with their passion for a particular long-term goal or end state (a powerful motivation to achieve an objective). This perseverance of effort helps people overcome obstacles or challenges to accomplishment and drives people to achieve.

  9. Gird Your Loins for a 'Devil Wears Prada’ Reunion at the SAG ...

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    Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, and Emily Blunt in ‘The Devil Wears Prada.’ Cover Images An awards show reunion? Groundbreaking. Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt are set to have a ...