Word: contentions
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After serving as an attorney in both theprivate and public sectors for over 60 years,Lumbard was content with his life's work andachievements, according to his son, although hereserved particular fondness for his years atHarvard...
...Well, I discovered what was coming next, and I immediately started seeing if I could still apply to other law schools. There was less intellectual content-it was a trade school, not an intellectual enterprise...
...every confirmed Marxist in the Class of '49, there were at least three liberals content with being ascribed to the moderate left...
Within the elysian Yard, I stroll content; I think I have gotten the hang of the "enter to grow in wisdom" part. It is at night, contemplating nothing, that I find myself wondering what will happen sometime next year if I should misplace...
...even happy to riff on his 12-year relationship with Hurley, the often scantily clad Valkyrie to whom he seems content to play the hapless chorus boy. "Elizabeth made me buy a house," he confesses, "and we spent two years having idiot, pretentious, criminal bozos decorate it. It's now completely hideous, and I'm quarreling with her because I don't want to live there. The shower smells of dead people; I hate it." Instead, he hangs out in their old flat around the corner. "I go there and watch the football and drink beer. But I think that...