Word: dwell
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...avert a similar calamity in arrow-bamboo regions, where a sizable portion of the wild pandas dwell, Chinese scientists, aided by the World Wildlife Fund, are undertaking emergency measures. One tactic: leaving roasted pork chops and goat meat on the mountain slopes in hopes that the pandas will turn from their normal vegetarian diet. Explained Schaller: "They'll eat meat if they can get it easily." The scientists are also using meat to lure pandas to lower-lying regions where other types of bamboo may be available...
Mossiker has excerpted too many letters that dwell on Mme. de Sévigné's excessive love for her daughter. In translating the letters the author has frequently coarsened the elegant language of the original. She uses contemporary jargon and cliches-"peer group," "life-style," "role models"-to describe the world of 17th century aristocrats. "One of the great mistresses of the art of speech," as Virginia Woolf characterized Mme. de Sévigné, is said by Mossiker to have "verbalized as naturally as she breathed." Even so, the French writer's voice carries, resonating across...
...former positions in the city administration--two of which she was the first woman to fill. The symptoms of milestone fever it did not demonstrate were numerous and encouraging. It did not include a sampling of opinion--the Lord Mayor's, her colleagaes', the public's or otherwise dwell on the difference it would make to have a woman in this traditional, little-heard-of and Shakespearean-sounding position. To do that would imply that maleness had been intrinsic somehow to the job in times of yore. It did not describe Donaldson's height, build or what she was wearing...
When coats were stowed under seats, house lights extinguished, the audience was shown the exterior of a large New England home, a portico of deathly paleness only partially masking the building's sepulchral grey face. Here dwell the Mannons. With swift, sure strokes a long story is told...
...antiutopian tendencies of our time may merely have been a reaction against the extreme utopianism of the past and thus a statement of the deepest disappointment: the best of all worlds was not possible, therefore the worst must be probable. But if most people find it unhealthy to dwell in dreamland, very few people wish to believe in wholly dark visions either, not only because such visions run counter to human buoyancy, bul because one cannot stare indefinitely at broken objects without feeling an urge to mend them. History encompasses neither utopia nor hell. It squats like a bear...