Word: existences
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...timid to the point of paranoia (he refused any food sent to him as a gift for fear that it was poisoned), he was a compulsive gambler. It was his only vice. His sex life should certainly have appealed to prudish Ruskin, for it did not exist: he shunned women in the fear that they might be witches. But gambling debts led him to churn out hack paintings, with predictable results for his reputation...
...challenge was to eat all 28 flavors. This was not so easy as it might seem, for not all Howard Johnson's restaurants carried all 28 flavors. Nor was it as pleasant as it might seem either, for there were flavors like ginger that had very little reason to exist except to be one of the magical 28. But there were always the marvelous cones, for Howard Johnson's cones were just about the only ones that stayed crisp and tasty no matter how long one spent lapping the ice cream down into the bottom, trying to make it last...
...council's resolution is completely meaningless. The question of whether ROTC can exist as an on-campus extra-curricular activity was settled 20 years ago. On May 29, 1968, a special faculty committee appointed by the Harvard Corporation concluded that "The armed services interpret the relevant public law as forbidding them to accept arrangements under which ROTC would become altogether extracurricular, with no contractual intermediation by the University beyond that afforded ordinary extracurricular activities...
...politics can become only so boring before it ceases to exist at all. Last week Los Angeles held an election and almost no one came -- only 23% of the voters turned out. Bradley does not need charisma to attract money; the bankers and developers in Los Angeles have wallets as fat as Michael J. Fox's. But politicians do need to inspire people, or at least keep them awake, if they are to lead as well...
...have every right to pull an advertisement--especially one that does not discuss any overt editorial view, and one that attempts to tacitly assert that business can exist in a political vacuum...