Word: dwelling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...World Trade Center when a plane struck the building, she said. The fire burned her terribly. She made it out, only to discover that she'd left her life behind: her fiancé was in the North Tower, she said, and he had died. She did not dwell on the graphic. She seemed, more than anything else, fragile, and nothing less than convincing...
...SDSers do more than dwell on the war or civil rights issues: they are big on institutional change and blaming the same forces their '60s counterparts were fighting. But if the rhetoric slung by current SDSers is any indication, the group's goals are ambitious. SDSers seem keen to point out problems with "the system," and their collective agenda is to tackle a host of anti-imperialist issues including the war in Iraq and concerns about the global economy, immigration and racism. SDS isn't just focusing on the U.S. "The military industrial complex is huge, of course," says Marisa...
...Jong Il, and "fight Japan." He'd have been fighting from behind enemy lines, of course, because the ethnic-Korean Lee was born and raised in Japan, where has always lived. The 35-year-old is a third-generation zainichi, one of 600,000 ethnic Koreans who dwell in Japan. And, like many zainichi, he grew up identifying with the North Korean regime. Lee attended Korean-language schools run by Chongyron, the fiercely pro-Pyongyang Korean residents association in Japan, where he was taught that North Korea was a socialist paradise...
...forget simple joys. I understand that is okay to feel sad, and that I should not allow the sorrow to permeate the atmosphere. Her smile tells me that I should look on the brighter side of things and be productive, get things done, rather than sulk around and dwell on the pessimistic...
...moves so quickly, it's often hard to notice that there's not much nutrition being offered and much that is being avoided. He never mentions Iraq in his stump speech. He talks - well, offers one sentence - about the challenge of "global Islamic jihad." And because he doesn't dwell on it, his audiences don't. On a late-May New Hampshire swing, he cruised through two performances before the word Iraq perforated his balloon. And then it was a high school student, who simply asked, "What would you do about Iraq...