Word: acted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said he understood why people were interested in him--he was getting pretty interested too. "Probably the present is more compelling than the past," he told Gross. "The beginning of life is just preparation." The preparation, he implied, was finally over. John Kennedy was all ready for the main act to begin...
...Arlington, when everyone was starting to leave, young John Kennedy stepped up to the casket of his mother and the gravestone of his father. He leaned forward and stretched toward them and put his hand upon each with a touch that was more like a kiss. It was an act of great physical grace, and love, and maybe it was done in part on behalf of a country that felt as he did--a generous gesture like the one 30 years before when a little boy made a salute...
...first instinct when strangers talk to me for no reason is no longer to edge away nervously, but to smile and be polite. I must say though, that it is a relief to be home among my own kind where I don't have to put on an act. Though I have to come love Cambridge for its beauty, charm and relative quiet at night, my heart still belongs to New York where passion for cultural diversity and brutal honesty rule...
Cutbacks in Medicare spending put into place by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 put a heavy strain on hospitals that depend on federal...
...first instinct when strangers talk to me for no reason is no longer to edge away nervously, but to smile and be polite. I must say though, that it is a relief to be home among my own kind where I don't have to put on an act. Though I have to come love Cambridge for its beauty, charm and relative quiet at night, my heart still belongs to New York where passion for cultural diversity and brutal honesty rule...