Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Aren't you in fact endorsing apartheid by accepting your fate in Soweto, rather than struggling...
...starting goalies point out another factor adding to the team's success--depth. In fact, an outsider watching a game would have a hard time distinguishing between the first and second team since the abilities of the reserves practically match those of the starters...
...more difficult, however, to pretend it was baseball season on the field. Players slipped and fell in the slop; frozen fingers committed eleven errors in the first three games. The vagaries of nature were compounded by the fact that for television reasons, five of the Series' seven games did not begin until 8:30 p.m., and a sixth was scheduled for late Sunday afternoon to avoid a ratings clash with pro football...
...hope of suggesting the amount of a billion: the 125-mile-high stack of dollar bills that would add up to about a billion, the airplane propeller turning around the clock at 2,400 r.p.m. that would fall short of spinning a billion times in a year, the fact that a billion minutes ago (A.D. 77) the Christian era had scarcely got under way. Still, such efforts to evoke the actuality of a billion are far likelier to give the curious a picture of an extremely tall stack of currency than of the quantity of a billion units. In truth...
...Kristof claims that the terrorist PLO has a "sincere desire for peace" and is in fact "privately...resigned to accept...Israel's existence as a fact of life." That is simply not the case. He evidently is referring to Arafat's acceptance of UN Resolution 3236, which the SCLC says recognizes Israel's right to exist, but in fact does not in any way. The Palestinian National Covenant of the PLO still calls for "armed struggle (as) the overall strategy" (Art. 9) and the "total liberation of Palestine" (Art. 21). wre these the slogans of an organization which wants peace...