Word: belonged
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...might have. But Reagan's elimination of any voice of reason--one that might raise the issue of foreign policy guided by the concerns of human life--is gone. And with it, the possibility that the United States extricate itself from a civil war in which it does not belong...
...McCarthy's musings serve a larger purpose, make a grander statement, or rather, indictment. She means to set the modern novel apart from and beneath its predecessors because today "Ideas are held not to belong in the novel; in the art of ficiton we have progressed beyond such simplicities," she writes sarcastically. And the writer McCarthy takes the critic McCarthy to heart. "I cannot philosophize in a novel in the good old way," she mourns. "Ideas are still today felt to be unsightly in the novel...
...Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, observed recently that "when you have got 52 of your fellow countrymen locked up over a period of time and there doesn't seem any way of getting them out, and when you can get them out at the expense of releasing assets which belong to Iran anyway, I think that's a right move. I would not agree that the Americans have given in to blackmail." The West German response has been similar. What dismayed Europeans most about the hostage crisis was the same thing that most dismayed and shocked the American public...
Floriano DeArego, a New Bedford carpenter who arrived from St. Michael in the Azores eleven years ago at the age of seventeen, has a highly positive attitude toward the ceremony. "It makes me belong to the country. I don't want to live here and just say I'm in the United States. I want to be part of it." DeArego, who could speak only Portuguese when he came here, says he had no difficulty picking up English, "When you want to learn something you can learn it. I had to. I worked with American people...
Director of the Cambridge-based National Bureau of Economic Research(NBER)--the official monitor of the U.S. business cycle--Feldstein said "Cambridge is where I belong" and added that he did not want to interrupt his teaching and research at Harvard, where he has been a full professor since 1969. He did not rule out a part-time association with the Reagan White House...