Word: dwelt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poetry McCarthy recited was a mixed bag. The political message of many of the poems rang clear, but others dwelt on the personal torment of the individual and the yearning for religious faith...
...period from 3000 B.C. to 2000 B.C., for example, shows the Egyptians to be eons ahead of their contemporaries. The Chinese of the period dwelt in houses of mud and thatch, contem porary Britons and Scandinavians lived like troglodytes in barrows, inhabitants of the Americas made do with skin tents, flimsy huts and caves. Technologically, the cultures of the Mediterranean and Middle East were even more advanced. Mesopotamians and the people of the Indus Valley could cast metals to make tools and ornaments-and keep written records. Small wonder that even centuries later, the peoples of the Middle East looked...
...have dwelt at some length on the image of America in my own country in the recent past, it is because I believe it reflects much that came into the picture of America in the world and those aspects of American civilization and behavior that have left a deep impact on world civilization. And at this moment in her history, when America feels the need to reassess her motives and aims and the urge to renew her institutions and policies, a knowledge of what she has meant for the world in the past will help her in determining what...
...gliders aloft or the suspenseful silence of their descent on the wicked ones is impossible to deny. The concluding shootout, in which the police and the army bumble up just in time to help, is also nicely handled, bloodshed and death being kept to a minimum instead of being dwelt upon in the modish manner...
...Nina Straight, a Washington socialite, agrees that he has held something back from the world: "I don't think Gore wants people to know what a sterling character he is and how hard he works. He has not had a happy life, but he's never dwelt on it. He just put certain things aside and concentrated on the writing. I know it sounds Horatio Algeresque -he will vomit to think I'm putting him in that category. But it's true...