Word: betrayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...picture of 'the world-renowned reproductive surgeon Dr. Arnold Loquesto, whom I'd consulted and photographed' posing with his dog. Why? Because, with such a picture, 'I would have the answer to the question of how to live in the world.' "Her repeated, obsessive references to her reproductive surgeon betray the narrator's deepest concern without, apparently, her being aware of the disclosure," says TIME's Paul Gray. "Whatever Dr. Loquesto was supposed to do for her somehow did not work, in a way she doesn't explain. She is 40 and childless, and Hecht has subtly grounded all these...
Here is a triangulation, a sort of syllogism, that seemed to be at work: Except for evil itself (if you believe in evil, as Chambers did), what mystery is deeper than that of betrayal? What betrayal is deeper, and more decisive, than suicide? What deeper political or social suicide can a man commit than to betray his country...
Fourth-year Medical School student Patrick W. Linson's quietly determined voice doesn't betray the obstacles he has faced...
...panic. If paranoia wins, the bombers win: they rob us of our peace of mind and our tradition of freedom; we accept a bunker culture in which liberty loses to suffocating security measures. We dishonor the memory of our dead by giving in to hysterical fear. And we betray our children, who look to us for strength. We take pride in singing about the home of the brave; now is the time to show that this is. PATRICK GRANT New York City...
...even his wall decorations betray his true love. Scrolled across the back of his room is a poster depicting a graph resembling the output from a seismograph. "It's the Riemann zeta function on the critical line," says Kedlaya. Apparently, solving a problem relating to the function is tantamount in prestige to proving Fermat's Last Theorem...