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Word: dismissingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Buckner can't dismiss the Red Sox management that easily...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: The Red Sox Let a Star Slip Between Their Legs | 7/24/1987 | See Source »

...must not dismiss Razo in such a manner, for the case presents a much-needed opportunity to take a hard look at race relations at Harvard...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Minority Search for a Middle Ground | 7/21/1987 | See Source »

...orientation between these strange bedfellows. Bennett wants to see students instructed in a small set of moral values centered around Judeo-Christian, Western traditions. He demands that Universities teach courses on Christian morality and impose strict codes of behavior which strongly discourage premarital sex, drugs and drinking. They dismiss current ethical instruction, which they characterize as games about "deciding which person to throw out of the lifeboat...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Striking a Balance in Ethics Education | 7/17/1987 | See Source »

Many Americans are reacting with frustration to the attack on the U.S.S. Stark by an Iraqi plane ((NATION, June 1)). It is time this country took some action and ignored the opinion of the rest of the world. We can no longer dismiss these incidents as accidents. America should react in a way befitting a superpower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Missile Strike | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...quest points toward despair. Thoughts, he decides, "don't get us anywhere; our speculations are like a stationary bicycle." But Kenneth's huffing and puffing amount to an engrossing spectacle: a mind, albeit weird, attempting to make sense out of the overwhelming flood of data that most people dismiss as daily life. Despite, or perhaps because of, what the narrator calls "my divagations and aberrations, my absurdities," More Die of Heartbreak crackles with intelligence and wit. The novel is not only proof that Bellow, 72, can live up to his own standards; it is also a reminder of how diminished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victims Of Contemporary Life MORE DIE OF HEARTBREAK | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

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