Word: abound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a difference between impressing a woman and inspiring her genuine affection. Any man who relies on his resume to attract and hold a woman deserves whomever he gets. Institutions like Harvard abound with individuals who are capable of analyzing government and literature, or diagnosing the ills of an entire marketplace. While being unable to read the underlying emotions of the person with whom they ear, sleep, and talk on a regular basis. A man afflicted with an intellect which comes to life only for academic or professional audiences, while personal subtleties glide past, is telling women that...
...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" accomplishes what most House plays set out to do--it entertains without becoming pretentious, giving both the cast and the crowd a good time. Capable actors and clever jokes abound in this production, and only the long line for tickets should keep one from catching a performance...
...Board should also not limit its investigation to the club that got caught last week. Rumors of similar events at other finals club initiations abound, and the events of last week make it seem possible that a humiliating initiation could soon become a tragedy. The worst thing the Ad Board could do would be to treat the Pi as an isolated group or simply make an example of it; at the next initiation at any club, anyone drinking too much would be in double jeopardy. For the sake of tradition, that club's officers couldn't afford to take...
Poland is scarcely more convincing as history than it is as fiction. Oversimplifications and omissions abound. Clearly, the research received from the local authorities suffers from the twin failings of modern Polish historiography: Communist rewriting of history and nationalist bias. Michener all but ignores the division of Poland between Stalin and Hitler in 1939. And he does not mention the Nazi slaughter of Polish underground forces and civilians during the 1944 Warsaw uprising, as the Red Army stood by across the river from the capital...
...this mentality certainly a harmless one--that the nation's college bands have directed their efforts in recent years. Stories abound of university bands being banned from television performances after they spelled out massive profanities or formed gigantic phalluses on the nation's football fields. In years past, such activities were usually funny, and a good time...