Word: earths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sign that environmentalists are fighting back? Are the American people finally getting a say? Perhaps. But one thing is sure: With all the prosperity incumbents are talking about, the time for environmental reform has come. More and more politicians are finding out it's pretty stupid to be anti-Earth. --Vasant M. Kamath
...sign that environmentalists are fighting back? Are the American people finally getting a say? Perhaps. But one thing is sure: With all the prosperity incumbents are talking about, the time for environmental reform has come. More and more politicians are finding out it's pretty stupid to be anti-Earth...
...decree that the Earth doesn't turn...
...bucked by the phrase "that they might," until the stanza ends with the prepositional pile-up "inscribed for her by the fates." Flat language and idioms mixed with arch language and emplotment are characteristic of Gluck's voice, which, like too many contemporary authors, is often pretentiously down-to-earth...
...deadpan style of joke-telling. After talking for a moment about something, she delivers the one-line joke. The audience laughs. She delivers a shorter, sharper, even funnier line. The audience roars. She looks out at the crowd with surprise and shock, as if she's wondering how on earth that outrageous comment could have come from her mouth. And the audience loves...