Word: conveyer
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...following department meeting, professors discussed how best to communicate this concern to the President. “The question was, how should we convey our distress?” recalled one. “ Should we invite him to a meeting, or have our chairman tell the dean who would tell the President? And then there’s that other possibility, but nobody says that. [New] was a little red in the face...
Sorenson said that this was the kind of message she had hoped to convey with the trip and the study group...
...State Republican Party, formed a company called SRQ Inc. to develop and manage the casino. They envision it as a glitzy Las Vegas--style resort complex designed to replicate the state capitol building. If the BIA approves the plan and takes the land into trust, Palmer's group would convey the property to the Upper Lake Band. In return, SRQ would manage the casino for seven years and take 30% of its annual net profits...
...Several readers were concerned that the cover image of bin Laden's faded visage floating in a field of white might convey something other than his uncanny elusiveness. "Maybe you were trying to suggest a ghostly image," granted one woman, "but, in fact, the cover gives a very heavenly, angelic appearance to this monster." "The background should have been red and yellow," suggested an upstate New York reader, "to symbolize the blood of thousands of innocent victims and the fire of hatred he has ignited among his followers." And a Massachusetts woman felt an urge known to so many schoolchildren...
...could she turn down a major new part tailored to her voice, let alone one that would give her the chance to make her Covent Garden debut? Then she read the book. "I was a little bit anxious," she recalls, struggling to find the words in English to convey how overwhelmed she was by the story, whose central character, a Polish gentile survivor of Auschwitz, is forced to choose which of her two children will live. "I'm still a little anxious," she confessed shortly before opening night. The emotional demands of Sophie's story frightened Kirchschlager, but also fired...