Word: enterances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Enter Jamieson, who had an unfortunate start with an 0-1 record and a 9.00 ERA out of the spring break trip, to close out the second inning and stop the bleeding...
...editor of Book Publishing Report. Ironically, it was Newhouse who developed the high-price strategy, says Thomas Maier, author of Newhouse, on the theory that, as in Hollywood, the hits could carry the dogs. "He became a victim of this theory and opened the door for media conglomerates to enter the world of book publishing," Maier notes...
...mean to say, God knows, that boys will be boys. But it is part of childhood to enter into parallel universes of "play" that may be sinister and that may become the more captivating the more it simulates reality. Usually the play, a form of testing and learning, is not fatal. But boys back to the dawn of human experience have had it in their bones to play violent games. Even the priggish Henry Adams, as a boy in the middle of the 19th century, joined the Latin School's army in a bloody rock-in-the-snowball battle...
Travelers who drive far enough into the parched interior of Australia, taking care to lug extra fuel, water and minor spare parts, enter a region of outback so distant and featureless that it lies beyond the reassuring certitude of maps. So says Australian novelist Janette Turner Hospital at the outset of her grim, millennial novel Oyster (Norton; 400 pages; $25.95). Such travelers--an Australian father, say, and an American stepmother, joining forces to track down backpacking adult children who had disappeared months before--would soon become disoriented. Even in their car they would be dazed by heat and a pervading...
Ebbott says people should enter academiccareers in the humanities if they want "a careerthat affords the opportunity of serious thoughtand the contemplation of something other than thebottom line...