Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...established ourselves among the top 20, if not the top ten teams in the country," said captain Adam Beren after a 5-2 consolation finals' loss to the University of Texas placed the Crimson ninth in a field of the sixteen best tennis-playing schools in the country...
Some skeptics still wonder how far the Eurocommunists are prepared to go. "The crux of the matter is that in no case did the numerous parties tell the Russians to cut it out or they would stop having relations," points out Adam Ulam, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center. What is more, the Communist parties have a good reason to try new tactics: the need to increase their popularity at the polls. In Spain, Carrillo's ulterior motive may be that he is trying to broaden support for a party riven by factionalism and in serious danger...
...seen a clay modello by Bernini or a Della Robbia plaque, a Kändler figure or terra cotta Madonna by Verrocchio, knows that all ready. In that sense the debate is pointless. But the misunderstanding survives, though clay is the oldest form of sculpture: God did not chip Adam from marble, or weld him together...
Though predicting earthquakes is an "in-exact science," Adam M. Dziewonski, professor of Geology, said yesterday that another one of the same magnitude--about 5.8 on the Richter scale--will erupt again in the near future...
...Adam S. Cohen's review of The Pope's Divisions: The Roman Catholic Church Today by Peter Nichols was so blatantly anti-Catholic that I have no choice but to respond. Mr. Cohen reveals his bias immediately when he says, "the book's dust jacket...features two Catholic clergymen praising the book's analysis," and implies 'we should therefore conclude the book to be full of lies. Apparently Mr. Cohen still views the Church as a bunch of sinister wizards plotting to take over the world from the Vatican, a view which even most Protestant fundamentalists no longer hold...