Word: faired
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conferences, which could have been outstanding opportunities to learn what I was doing right as well as what I was doing wrong, turned out to be hurried fifteen minute encounters where the pat comment was, "spend more time editing and to get closer to the text." It was a fair criticism of my writing, but no one ever showed me in class or in conference the way to go about it. If the Expos staff were a football team, its cheerleaders would chant, "Closer to the text," as if this would really help lead the team to victory...
Jamie Simone called for a fair catch at the Brown 40. Two plays netted the Bruins only one yard, but then lightening struck. On third down, flanker Smith burned Crimson safety Bryan Gecsuk, and caught a beautifully thrown Donovan pass for a 60-yard TD pass...
...That's not legal. It's dumb fiscal policy. Andit's just not fair to the vast majority ofAmericans who pay their taxes in full and ontime," Dukakis said...
Mowat is scrupulously fair: he shows his subject antagonizing co-workers as she lurches from tantrum to euphoria and back again, but he praises her meticulous observations of animal life and her unceasing struggles with poachers and politics as she fights to save the mountain gorillas from extinction. Her Africa is not the ordered master-and-servant backdrop of Isak Dinesen's tales. Three French visitors make a wrong turn on a back road and get fatally detained by Congolese troops. Fossey angrily tells her family, "They were reportedly tortured . . . hung on racks, finally eaten. The Congo...
...outlook for fair elections in Haiti grew darker last week with the murder of a presidential candidate, apparently by plainclothes police. Lawyer Yves Volel, 54, was shot in the head in front of police headquarters in Port-au- , Prince as he protested the plight of political prisoners held without charges. Journalists on the scene identified his attackers as detectives in the police force's notorious criminal-research bureau...