Word: dwelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like a man running out of time, Mikhail Gorbachev did not dwell on niceties. Instead, he faced the 307-member Central Committee of the Communist Party and cut straight to the heart of his concern: the Soviet Union's bureaucracy- burdened economy. With characteristic candor, the Soviet leader faulted his predecessors for entrenching a system that promoted inefficiency, hampered industrial growth and destroyed national morale. Only "radical reform," he insisted, could put the economy back on its feet. In a challenge to his conservative critics, Gorbachev declared, "The possibilities of socialism . . . will be judged precisely by the progress and results...
...didn't think about [the streak] much," Greg Lee said. "All us seniors sort of thought about it. We didn't want to be the class that blew it. We joke about it, but we didn't dwell...
...picture of my past, but to help me work through things that were bothering me, and give me advice on how to "balance" myself. He mentioned that I was too much of a perfectionist and let minor setbacks upset me more than they should. He said I should not dwell on the negative, but on the positive, adding that if I started to think negative thoughts, I should just say, "Fuck that...
...arrogant and elegant people, filled with a serene self-satisfaction that amounts to a collective narcissism. Whites in East Africa for generations have been infatuated with the Masai. Yet certain details of their lives, like the flies that sometimes cake their lips and eyelids, can be disgusting. The Masai dwell in the world's most magnificent spaces. Yet to stoop at midday to enter one of their dung-walled huts to share a cup of tea is to be plunged immediately into an impenetrable, claustrophobic gloom, choked with smoke. A laser beam of sunlight fires through the darkness from...
...Bundy notices that other dogs no longer pay any attention to his faithful companion: "One by one, as Bundy's dog grew older, the younger ones ignored him. He might have been a stuffed animal leashed to a parking meter. The human parallel was too disturbing for Bundy to dwell on it." But dwell on it he does: "Impersonally appraised, in terms of survival the two of them were pretty much at a standoff: the dog was better fleshed out, but Bundy was the heartier eater...