Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...underneath the popularity of many council policies, a curious pattern was taking shape. While the body had grown deft at latching onto high-profile issues, it had failed to show initiative in breaking new ground. Its contribution to the faculty recruitment issue, in fact, came more than a year after the Minority Students Alliance and other minority groups began the movement...
...most of the week, contradictory signals emanated from a country whose secretive rulers prize political stability above all else. Perhaps the most curious sign involved the army. On Monday seven retired generals, including former Defense Minister Zhang Aiping, signed a letter to the party leadership demanding that the P.L.A. not be used to quell the uprising. "The army must absolutely not shoot the people," it read. Two days later, the military's Liberation Army Daily quoted a letter from the P.L.A. general staff (also dated Monday) urging troops to study carefully a speech by Li Peng denouncing the uprising...
...embarrassed," she rails, explaining that cold pasta is not a part of traditional Italian cuisine. Not that she doesn't favor many American foods: hot dogs, pastrami, the world's best steaks, corn on the cob. Says she: "Americans are so much more curious and open-minded about food than Italians...
From dawn to dusk these days, Bush has taken the dewy path along the Rose Garden and wondered about his fate. Not in despondency -- that is not his nature -- but in a detached, curious and wary way. Once he looked up after long hours of deliberation and said, "The decisions are getting tougher." So true. No good answers present themselves. He chooses now from the best of the bad, which is the usual way in government. Last Thursday his crisis pace reached its peak, as shown in these remarkable pictures...
...game of lawn bowling; in American, they converge on a twelve-lane bowling alley. And in Western, the roads are lined with pigs, while in American, they are crowded with Jeep Cherokees. Although the 76 square miles of American land is clearly more affluent, it is also, in a curious way, more derelict. "You'll notice that the ceremonies in Western Samoa are much more relaxed," says John Enright, American Samoa's Folk Arts Coordinator. "Over here they're more uptight. There's always a fear that they're losing their traditions, or that they won't get things quite...