Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paraphrase another Arizona legislator, humor in the defense of politics is no vice. On the other hand, it can take you only so far in national politics. Just ask Bob Dole, a genuinely funny man. And just ask Morris Udall, the 30-year congressman and presidential wannabe who died Sunday at the age of 76 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. His quick, self-deprecating wit helped Udall make it through a series of disappointments while trying for higher office, including a disastrous attempt at the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976. A story Udall told for years afterward...
...translated into the lack of empathy for another culture, race or religion that allows atrocities like the Holocaust to happen. It seems to have been Appelfeld's intent to lull us into a state of complete emotional suspension. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, it seems that we commonly ask ourselves how the Holocaust could have ever happened. Appelfeld reminds us why it was possible. And as dark as the issues he raises may be, they never fail to come across with a devastating subtlety not necessarily found in many post-Holocaust reflections...
...interview with The Crimson, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said he believes "[King's] affiliation [to Christian groups] was a fair question to ask. And the reaction to his affiliation is fair...
Cavanenghi would ask for a volunteer at his show, and if any audience member dared agree, Cavanenghi would proceed with the cannibalism until the audience member begged him to stop, Wilson said...
Also, for the first time, the ACSR reccommended approving proposals that ask companies to endorse the Ceres Principles, a code of conduct for the environmentally sound performance of corporations. The ACSR had previously called the Principles poorly written and too hard for companies to implement...