Word: acted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said he was bewildered that anyone in the House could have engaged in such an act...
Hanson said the act stunned a House community that has not experienced a similar event during his time as master...
...just overwhelmed by this act of generosity to the school and to me," Murphy said. "I have no idea who contributed or how the deed was done. I'm grateful to Liz and John [Hobbs, campaign co-chairs] for sharing the secret so I avoided crying in public...
...believed that, ultimately, it is not logical consideration that brings people to hopeless irony, and that redemption too will be effected not through logic but through passion and commitment.The use of the exemplary self is the attempt to convince not through argument but through moral suasion: if I can act this way or believe these things, the speaker suggests, so can you. And aphorism does not necessarily proceed through channels of reason but rather through inspiring an emotional response of identification, an instinctual rather than an intellectual...
...Abrahams. The awards are intended to make light of "things that a lot of people expect to be intimidated by and not to like," Abrahams said. This category includes everything from science to opera. Besides a number of science demonstrations, last night's ceremony included a four-act opera that mixed tunes from Carmina Burana and other operas into a story that examined the issues of cloning humans and sheep...