Word: beheld
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What we resembled none of these. Instead, we beheld two clean-cut yuppies in pin-striped suits two introduced themselves as Larry and Steve. They ushered us into the neat, pastel-saturated meeting room and offered us a beverage of our choice. The drinks were on a table set with a tablecloth, doilies and long-stemmed water glasses, the chairs were lined up in neat little rows...
Gerstein applauded the release of the documentsthis week and said that admissions offices must beheld accountable for their comments...
...beheld the ways of wisdom, that a man cannot find out all the work that is done under the sun; though a wise man think to know it all, yet he shall not be able to find it; much better to specialize...
...rest of the world has beheld the gulf war and its outcome, the riveting seven-month video, with expressions of admiration, awe, wariness, discomfort and, in the case of many Arabs, a sense of rage and sorrow and betrayal. Nearly everyone is puzzled by the idea of a new world order...
...Testament is so full of hate, I ; stared at the back of Nelson Mandela's head as he sat at the conference table -- a nimbus of television light around his charcoal hair, the man enveloped in utter stillness, the most thorough self-possession I have ever beheld. Does 27 years in prison make a man so calm? As I listened to Gunter Grass (a stolid German with some huge gravity pulling him earthward) discussing the Nazis, my mind drifted to Vaclav Havel, who I decided is an alert woodland creature. Jimmy Carter shines with a likable sweetness...