Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...step in shaping the future, there could be no more appropriate setting than at sea, even a sea as wild as the one last weekend around Malta. In a world that seemed to be dissolving, where better to meet than in a place with no boundary lines, no familiar landmarks -- and no firm footing...
...been connected by cable to a bomb attached to a bicycle parked on the limousine's route. Police say the bomb included a light-sensitive device that triggered the explosion precisely as Herrhausen's limousine passed by. Under the box was a piece of paper with the all too familiar star-shaped symbol superimposed on a drawing of a Kalashnikov rifle: the trademark of West Germany's ultra-leftist urban terrorists, the Red Army Faction...
...perhaps the women's club wants to have parties where men are invited? The men could come and socialize with the women when and only when the women choose to invite them. Hmmm, it sounds vaguely familiar. Do we want to answer elitism and sexism with more of the same? We thought progressive thinkers had long ago discarded the "separate but equal" doctrine for a more socially constructive integrationist view...
...vast numbers of Asian-Americans who do not come to America with strong college educations and for their descendents, the miracle of "success" comes with familiar, brutal infrequency. And finally, this way of thinking ignores whatever cultural legacies remain unique to Asian-Americans--what some have labelled orthodoxy, passivity or "oriental" foreignness--and what they provoke from mainstream America...
...coaches decided to move me back, and I'm a little more familiar with this position," said Vukonich, who played his first two seasons at center. "It gives me a lot more room to move...