Word: crueler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington, as any biologist will tell you, is crueler than nature, and for the next few months rivals Clinton and Dole will find themselves in more or less intimate association, mutually dependent but wholeheartedly trying to annihilate each other...
With Marino, though, it seems even crueler. Think about it for a second. He is the best pure passer of his generation, probably ever, and he has never won a championship in anything. Not in the pros. Not in college. Not in high school. And not even in Pop Warner...
...fact, human nature favors Kerrigan: Olympic judges, like Supreme Court Justices, read the election returns, and Kerrigan, the goddess of good, already enjoys a significant edge over Harding, the consort of thugs. On the other hand, if Kerrigan falls and Harding triple-Axels her way to victory, then what crueler punishment could be devised than for Harding to lose her medal if she is eventually found guilty...
...rage and despair: "I have spent more than a dozen years with a man who would destroy me and corrupt my daughter, leading her into a betrayal of her mother and her principles, leaving her morally bankrupt with the bond between us demolished. I can think of no crueler way to lose a child or a lover." Another adopted daughter, Lark, 18, visited the offices of the New York Post, telling of a traumatic powwow Farrow held with her older children during which Soon-Yi was told to choose between Woody and Mommy...
Maybe this is the way to do it. As you grow up, you go home less often. More and more of your life is spent somewhere else, somewhere crueler. And that's why it's still necessary to escape every so often: to visit...