Word: dwell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immigrants and poorer Australians don't have much to do with the sexy, healthy, multi-orgasmic highly successful Australian woman who jog, drink cocktails and relax in their bathtubs" points out that the sexual revolution has been primarily a bourgeois one for Western audiences who can afford to dwell upon appeasing libidos instead of hunger. Emecheta claims that Western women have, in fact, undervalued themselves by staying within the capitalist framework and focusing on the need to "relearn how to be a woman." Her claim echoes other Third World feminists who call for a return to a socio-economic basis...
...mortal, here for a time and then gone. We are rarely exposed to that truth, never on live national television, and when we are it is cruel and harsh because we mostly ignore the prospect of death and disaster so that we may go on in life. To dwell means to be paralyzed, numbed into self-consciousness and fear. Then why did some of us stare as we did at the 10th and 20th replay of the shuttle explosion? Because we couldn't pull our eyes away. Not from the fireball, not from the eerie pre-flight scenes...
Nevertheless, it would be overly indulgent to dwell on what is probably little more than coincidence...
While some graduate students appear ready to continue pushing for the right to disassociation, others say they believe it is not constructive to dwell on past cases...
...refusing to dwell on or even acknowledge the problems that are headed his way, Reagan seems to derail a lot of them. As another occupant of the Oval Office, Calvin Coolidge, said, "If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you." Coolidge's portrait still hangs in the Cabinet Room for daily inspiration...