Word: botches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...narrator cannot. She remembers only the present state of the world, she has no past with which to compare it. Emily is at first a child, self, protective, always isolated. She cannot articulate her emotions, nor can she respond to the narrators real affection for her. Only Hugo, that "botch of a creature," receives her love. Emily's only goal is to survive, to find food and shelter in the apartment, and the woman who gives her this protection is unimportant...
...crime allegedly committed by the CIA could in any way match the supreme crime of feeding its employers with the incredible mass of misinformation which has made a botch of U.S. foreign policy from the Bay of Pigs onward...
...will, into a symbol of injustices for which he bears little, if any, personal responsibility and which may even be largely the figments of his assassins' imaginations? The Nada Gang, in short, had the potential for being Chabrol's great summing up. It is instead a botch...
...points' they suffer from syntactical confusion and 'a woolly, pretentious style.' " Macdonald's answer: "Were the Sermon woolly," that would be "my reaction, and I should be right, since in that case the Sermon would not be the great moral message it is but a botch, and not only in style...
...Dartmouth game, Steve Baumann scored two goals, while Larry Crum, Tom Botch and John Burke notched one each. Goalie Jim Miller recorded his ninth shutout of the year for the Quakers...