Word: facedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stressing inner stability even in the face of failure, he said, "If you become tense, you lose peace, you lose sleep, you could not eat, with that strong emotional feeling...At the same time, your family, even your own dogs and cats will suffer and lose peace...
...creation of this new legal right was almost an act of contrition by states ashamed of their complacency in the face of genocide. The U.N. was declaring dramatically that it must never happen again. And in taking such unprecedented measures it implicitly acknowledged the special place that had to be accorded to Jews after the war; war; not accidentally, in the period between the resolution and the convention, the U.N. passed the resolution mandating the creation of a Jewish state in partitioned Palestine...
...fair, Vonnegut overdoes it at times. Walter Starbuck, a typical Vonnegut face-in-the-crowd personality, has gone to Harvard in the 1930s largely because of family connections with a Harvard man. His most vivid memories are of Harvard, and everyone he meets has had a memorably bad experience with a Harvard graduate. Harvard has given Starbuck a one-way ticket to the top, but it hasn't put out the net to catch him when he falls. And he does fall, of course, only to be thrust on the escalator again by the omnipresent invisible hand that...
Rosa begins to resent the constant need for discretion--the daily hardening to face surveillance or arrest. She knows the policeman who trails her, picks out the government's spy at a political meeting, stares down the agent who watches her as she finally flees the counry. Her discretion is so instinctive that she insulates herself from all human contact, passing through lovers with the self-possession noted approvingly in a school report written during her father's arrest...
Baltimore manager Earl Weaver sent Terry Crowley in to face the razor-thin reliever. Crowley hit into a force but succeeded in advancing both runners. Tekulve then tossed Ken Singleton four straight balls to load up the bases. Tekulve and the Pirates were banking on the slumping Eddie Murray to end the inning...