Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shall take care not to align ourselves with one group or another ... remaining neutral on those [questions] not affecting us directly . . . India obviously cannot join either of the two blocs . . . What she desires is an understanding between Russia...
...plays, Army had a touchdown. At halftime the Cadets had a 14-0 lead, and it was plain to be seen that the upset of the season was in the making. It was also obvious that the purposeful outrage being committed by the Army had been planned with surpassing care...
...Oregon, but with differences that the jaded reader of historical fiction will be quick to appreciate. In all the body-torturing, spirit-testing haul from Independence to the Willamette, there is not one Indian attack, not a single war whoop or flaming arrow, not one hot-blooded, devil-may-care hero to turn in an impossible rescue, not even a big-breasted heartbreaker in low-cut linsey woolsey to take strong nation-makers from their plain wives and set them at each others' throats...
...ever since her childhood, when she tried to tag after her two older brothers and sister as they marched off to school, she seemed to know what she wanted to do next. "She was always pretty," says her brother Alfred. "She always had brains, and she could always take care of herself...
Salter insists on deliberate use of the word / as much as possible (his book is full of it). Mock modesty is all nonsense: "Express agreement when you are praised." Finally, "Don't plan. Live for the next minute . . . and tomorrow will take care of itself...