Word: blanketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Police arrived at a drab cinder-block real-estate office to find Mansur dressed in slippers and wrapped in a white-knit blanket; he was slumped in an easy chair with the telltale mask strapped to his face. A string tied to the middle finger of his left hand was connected to a clip on the tubes running from two cylinders labeled CARBON MONOXIDE. The body was gaunt, the skin yellow-green. For the past few months, Mansur had been too sick to drive and carried a morphine pump around with him to combat the pain. "He was in hell...
Could I, as a Black man, discount everything Thomas Jefferson ever accomplished because he owned slaves? Of course not. That type of blanket dismissal would prevent me from appreciating one of the greatest figures in history. It is no more accurate to call Powell a propagator of "anti-humanist rhetoric" than it is to call Jefferson nothing more than a famous slaveowner...
...laudable ideal but the preaching of untruths and intolerance remains detestable. Dr. Muhammad's talk had little to do with academic discourse. Not only did he insult Black students and faculty as "Uncle Toms," he similarly offended every Muslim when, as a Muslim, he called whites "liars." Such blanket invective has no place in true intellectual discussion...
...look mah-velous" of the '90s. His recent one-man off-Broadway show, No Cure for Cancer, has been turned into a paperback and a comedy-music album that are already in the stores, plus a cable special now playing on Showtime. And Leary is starting to blanket the nation's movie screens, sending up a lounge singer in National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, playing a dad in the baseball comedy The Sandlot (due this spring) and starring as a street tough in the action drama Judgement Night (summer...
...Snow is an enjoyable novelty for the first few weeks, but then you can't wait for it to end." said Douglas E. Feldman '94, originally of California. "But I've got an electric blanket...