Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps most disturbing to me were the letters that attributed sinister motives to my criticism of Israel. One reader informed me that he could not brook criticism from anyone "whose political purpose goes beyond that of Palestinian nationalism and human rights...
...anticipating the difficulties. "We were promised that we could do it all and we would be as successful as men," says Carolyn Lo Galbo Goodfriend, 39, a mother of a five-year-old, who manages more than $300 million worth of accounts for Kraft General Foods in Rye Brook, N.Y. "But the trade-offs and sacrifices a woman has to make are far greater than a man's." Lo Galbo once met Steinem at an awards dinner and demanded to know, "Why didn't you tell us that it was going to be like this?" The matriarch of Ms. magazine...
MBTA may also add two routes between Harvard Square and Brook-line. The authority will make a final decision on the routes in a few weeks, Diamond said...
From the beginnings of history and literature, human beings have also invoked the sun. In rejecting peace offers from Darius before the battle of Gaugamela, Alexander the Great explained, "Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters." And in 1911, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, speaking of his nation, declared, "No one can dispute with us the place in the sun that...
...Radcliffe College provides a room of one's own," panelist Rose Coser told the crowd. A professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Coser said the women's institution "provides a network--something that comes natural to men but not to women...