Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prayed harder than at any time of my life. On the one hand, I wondered what the impact would be like. But I also was congratulating myself for buying my ticket with my American Express card, which gives me $500,000 in life insurance. I figured that would just about cover the mortgage on my family's house in St. Louis...
...playing in Portland, Ore. The Chicago Blitz is a paper franchise, having suspended play for this season and dealt out its squad like so many cards to other U.S.F.L. teams. While a few U.S.F.L. franchises are catching on, none of them are breaking even. Indeed, the L.A. Express played its opener last Sunday on welfare, so deep in the red that it is currently being supported by the other teams...
...private about 15 times from December to May in the comfortable surroundings of the Faculty Club. Fairly early in our consideration of the South African question, we decided to hold an open hearing in order to receive input from those members of the Harvard community who wished to express their views on the University's South Africa investment policy. Several Committee members came away from this hearing convinced that a sizable portion of the student population is deeply concerned about this issue...
Sometime during all of our lives, we will see incidents similar to this that will challenge our instincts to take a Samaritan course of action. I am writing this letter to express my hope that we will be well enough educated to respond to these instincts in a more potent way than those handful of bystanders on the street the other day. Withheld Upon Request
...less often retraveled ground covered by previous examples of the genre. If the only show on a subject is erroneous, corrective information may not sink in when conveyed in the less vivid form of print. The TV networks are plainly within their constitutional rights to make docudramas, and to express whatever point of view they wish. Their output may add to public knowledge and enrich public debate. But given what misimpressions of history a docudrama may also leave, the furor in Atlanta should provide an impetus for overdue self-restraint. In a thoughtful, democratic society, nothing is more sacred...