Word: deign
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...crowd Madonna concerts go to see both the real Madge and her various fictional incarnations. Movie stars, because they are by definition absorbing as both their real selves and their imaginary creations, have already acquired some of the most important skills they need to be pop stars. When they deign to put them to use in their music, as Black does, they have a shot at rocking hard...
...acting early, so as to prevent Macedonia becoming another Balkan bloodbath. It has sent in an advance team of 400 soldiers, soon to be accompanied by a further 3,100, on a 30-day mission to collect whatever weapons the ethnic-Albanian guerrillas of the National Liberation Army deign to hand over. Of course many of those guerrillas, particularly the more militant factions based around Tetovo, are still actively using those weapons and it's hard to imagine they'll be ready to hand them over in the next couple of days or weeks when they're still being fired...
...conclude that the gentleman is a man of some means, for saving money in his day-to-day activities is of little concern to him. He must use a cell-phone, for he has no need for the lower phone rates the council brokered. Likewise, he doesn't deign to take holiday shuttles to the airport, for the $35 cab ride doesn't vex his pocketbook. He must never have purchased a used-book at the COOP, for the fact that the council has pressured the COOP to add hundreds of used book titles to it racks is a matter...