Word: expounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rationally observe that my future draft status is no shakier than it was on Monday afternoon. I can calmly expound on the illusory nature of the differences between the old and new systems. I can playfully belt my roommate, who drew =336, or the guy upstairs, who ranks =366 (for real...
...private laboratory, and learned how to do evil. His colleagues decided to punish Dr. Eloem by sending him off in a spaceship to a far corner of the universe, accompanied by his creations-Adam and Eve. The late author and Anglican theologian C. S. Lewis used space to expound traditional Christian theology in his trilogy Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength. His Perelandrans, for instance, were creatures who had not fallen from primordial grace...
...false name-Borodin, the first of many. It was not long before he endured his first imprisonment and betrayal. Typically, while his colleagues scuttled out of town to escape the police, Kropotkin was caught because he felt obliged to keep his date with the local geological society to expound his theory on the ice cap. A weaver in his "circle" broke his alias to the police. There was no trial. The prince was shut up "at the Czar's pleasure." However, the Czar did allow him books and papers to work ("till sunset only") on his two-volume geography...
They compose their own songs, sing them in soft, burred voices, and ac company themselves on a bewildering array of instruments: guitars, whistles, sitars, ouds, organs, harmonicas, violins and gimbris. At a time when the music scene reverberates with cacophony and aggression, they expound gentleness, lyricism and fantasy. As they put it in one of their songs, Ducks on a Pond, they sing "a magic word, speak of hopes with thoughts absurd...
...synthehippie might make a passable reduction, were it not for the ignorance of its creators (many moviehippies expound at length on the differences between acid and LSD), and the aura of creeping Barry Goldwaterism expressed in (as far as I can detect) the first pejorative use of the word "love." When a moviehippie says he just wants to wander around loving everything in sight, we can almost always detect the tone of a lurking scriptwriter at some pains to imply that the sonofabitch ought to get off the streets and earn a decent living. Moviehippies are often surprisingly well...