Word: discard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little to choose ideologically between the two: both suit their conservative instincts just fine. Surprisingly few are holding out in hope of a job or other favor. A number miss in Ford the image of a decisive leader that they perceive in Reagan, and yet they are reluctant to discard an incumbent who they believe has performed passably well in difficult circumstances...
...belief. To Nietzsche, humanity's theological license had expired, and man could either plunge into nihilism or freedom. This now classical alienation from faith became Heidegger's concern. In his seminal work, Being and Time, he set out to investigate the nature of existence. He tried to discard the Cartesian dualism of mind and matter. Heidegger's man is "thrown" into the void. Confronted by dread, this "authentic person" lives in the full awareness of his extinction; between sentience and death he can find freedom and purpose...
...over his grandmother for Nixon. But he admits that he might as well have made the remark. His loyalty to Nixon was total. Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman once warned him: "Richard Nixon will use anybody. Remember that. When he doesn't need you, he'll discard you." But Colson thought he was somehow exempt from this treatment...
...needs drastic surgery. "We are not trying so much to do social work," Mother Teresa explains, "as to live out that life of love, of compassion, that God has for his people." The poor, she says, suffer even more from rejection than material want. "If we didn't discard them they would not be poor. An alcoholic in Australia told me that when he is walking along the street he hears the footsteps of everyone coming toward him or passing him becoming faster. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty...
When caught later, Oswald carried the revolver that ballistics tests showed had fired the four cartridge cases found in a yard near Tippit's body. A witness saw Oswald discard the empty shells there. Six witnesses identified Oswald as the gunman they saw either at the Tippit murder scene or fleeing...