Word: betrays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, Tucker started doing abortions for the money, but has since become a strong pro-choicer. Of the pro-lifers, he says, "They've got me pissed off, and I'm not going to quit." Yet he can betray an uneasy ambivalence. "I wish I would never ever have to do another one," he says. "I don't like it. It's not fun. It's not like you're curing a cancer or fixing a broken bone. You're terminating a potential life...
...Leviticus chapter includes a section on sex straightforwardly called "All About Getting Down." It solemnly notes, "It was a bad thing to do the wild thing without the blessing from the Almighty. You had to be hitched." And, in Genesis, Joseph rejects Potiphar's wife because he "couldn't betray a homeboy that way. Also, he couldn't jock the Almighty either, 'cuz it wouldn't be right sleeping with somebody else's ol' lady...
...DAVID JOSEPH KENNEDY has been vastly successful at Harvard. But these successes--and the context in which he has achieved them--sometimes betray his own desire to live life freely, to quote from both "In Living Color" and a German theologian in the same conversation, to write for Perspective and Lampoon in the same week...
...like laughing at Americans, and this production gives us ample opportunity to chortle at some completely pathetic specimens. For all their intellectual cultivation, the professors squabble loudly over the tab at restaurants, blatantly betray their sexual indiscretions and generally embarass themselves. The audience cringes at their sycophantic adoration of all things British...
...destroyed bridge, an unusable airport, and a stinging condemnation from the U.N. Nevertheless, the action has given Croats new confidence that they can give the Serbs who pummeled them in 1991 a taste of their own medicine. Though another emergency cease-fire was declared Friday, such sentiments betray the more likely future for Croatia. (See related story on page...