Word: extant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Obviously, not everyone will subscribe to this view, but the statement indicates the paranoid feelings almost everyone does have about that important--and hopefully permanent--linkage. The prospects are particularly frightening to baby-boom era children; at least one out of three marriages we have seen are no longer extant, and over 40 per cent of new marriages are doomed to failure. Yet people still fall in love and decide to wed. The rest of your life is a hard thing to face alone, so security becomes a reason to marry. Love and lust, of course, play their parts...
Jesus' claim of oneness with the Father is the warp and woof of the Gospel. Rather than deny that claim, he accepted death. No internal evidence in extant manuscripts suggests otherwise...
...guarantee success. It is a problem that has been extant for 29 years or more-some say thousands of years. But I think it is a good first step and I think that anyone who would only go with a guarantee of success would probably not likely take the first step toward peace...
...vast numbers of drawings done by Die Brucke (many of which are no longer extant) attest to the desire of these artists to make the pencil a sixth sense, an uncerebrated recording of their response to what they saw. Heckel's Reclining Woman (1913) exemplifies the spontaneous quality sought after; the carpenter's pencil defines the woman's body in uncompromising, strong lines, and shades the form into three-dimensionality with vibrating squiggles that are intended to be read as trails of the artist's pencil...
...announcers make it sound so intellectual, I wonder if I'm qualified to coach," said Anderson, grinning. He is the most successful manager extant. "They ask Danny Driessen what he was expecting the pitcher to throw...