Word: distant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Also, a $2-$4 increase in term bill will lose significance in the face of the seemingly inevitable $500 increases which roll along every year. Additionally, it is much more convenient to procure toilet paper from a House store-room than to have to run to a distant supermarket when one is in need. In the sake of equality, all students should receive the same services for the same...
Namo started to force his way toward a distant department that he had not yet checked out, and to get there he decided to take a short-cut through ladies' lingerie. I sensed trouble, but it was no use. He struck out as though he were a bulldozer blazing a trail in the woods, knocking over women with his wide shoulders...
...strewn with refugees seeking safe harbor. "The flow is so great," reports TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein, "that countries in the area are becoming increasingly reluctant to accept new arrivals, even temporarily. And as the tide of refugees rises, it is straining the ability-and the willingness -of more distant nations to grant them permanent asylum...
When she reflects on how she might approach her life if given the chance to start it over again, Tish sees a vision curiously distant from the world of manners: "First of all, I'd go on the line and learn factory jobs, with the goal of someday being chairman of the board of U.S. Steel...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ·American Caesar, William Manchester ·E.M. Forster: A Life, P.N. Furbank ·In Search of History, Theodore H. White ·Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ·The Annotated Shakespeare, A.L. Rowse ·The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn