Word: breds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many of South Viet Nam's young refugees, day-to-day contact with war has bred an obsession with death. Some children worriedly interpret wrinkles and white hair on visitors or grandparents as a sure sign that their end is imminent. After returning from a trip to South Viet Nam, Lee Sanne Buchanan fell seriously ill with hepatitis, and Kim-Oanh shrank back from her. "I don't like you any more because you are going to die," she said...
...fame has bred the arrogance of political orthodoxy. The department's antipathy to Marxian economics has meant that assistant professors who subscribe to this method of analysis invariably depart without receiving tenure...
...shortage of graduate students, and as the best ones sometimes prefer sections of lecture classes to Expos, the staff could be supplemented with local writers and Phoenix and Globe reporters. Such appointments might give a student access to more experienced, seasoned, and unusual perspectives than those of overworked, Ivy-bred, 23- or 24-year-old graduate students...
THIS LIFE of monogamy and restaurant management, so close to the one she had been born and bred to expect, could offer at least the illusion of security. Anchored here, she could persuade herself that she'd outgrown the drug scene as a passing affair, a heady flirtation. She would deny it all by welding her life to another, lived twice as long. She could even borrow upon the example of her parents' marriage to tell herself that she had found love at last and place a magical efficacy in the crowd...
...Robert the Pious and Gontran the Rich, from Suleiman the Magnificent and Cathal Crovedearg of the Wine-Red Hand. They belong, variously, to the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Moslem and Orthodox-both Greek and Russian-churches. They are, almost without exception, reasonable, personable -and, it goes without saying, well-bred. They consider themselves the legitimate claimants to the thrones of 14 European countries where royalty has gone out of business...