Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first-year, still floating around campus, desperately looking for others who share my interests. But I truly believe that, at its essence, a religious group needs to establish mutual trust before it can even think of moving on to larger goals; that trust is founded on casual interactions...
...finally succumbed to the Parkinson's disease and lung ailments that had sparked rumors of his demise for years, most Chinese registered barely a sigh. Black-clad television announcers proclaimed his death just a few hours after it occurred, while traffic continued to thread through Tiananmen Square. The casual manner in which Beijing residents went about their daily routines offered eloquent proof that the Chinese have accepted their leader's mortality and long since discounted his loss. "We are at ease with the thought that things will be all right without Deng," said Beijing writer Yin Zhixian. "It's unlikely...
...become harder and harder to have casual social gatherings in the houses. It's like trying to sneak out of your parents' house to have a party," Coffey says...
Writing about Sinatra and Previn, who was out touring for most of their marriage, Farrow is fairly mild, even philosophical. With Allen she is bitter and exacting. Minor flaws are recorded, right down to his carefully assembled casual look in clothes. Allen was fastidious. When her sister came around in a pink T shirt, he was scornful. From the start, Farrow was frustrated by his indifference to her ever growing family. Why did she keep adopting? She traces the inspiration to her son Moses, the first child she took in who was afflicted (with cerebral palsy). He was a gentle...
...clear, sex with a condom is like sleeping with a lifeguard; sex without it, however, is commensurably lethal. Although the sponsors of Condom Week cushioned their message in fluorescent-colored poster paper and humorous ditties, the essence of their project was to spread the word that sex, despite the casual tone, is far from casual. At the most literal level, the promulgators of the condom ethic are telling Harvard students to slow down, for at least the time it takes to put on a condom. At a more general level, the conviction that is driving Condom Week is essentially...