Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...favorite ways to procrastinate in high school was to flip through Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. I would write down my favorite quotes and feel good about all the time I was saving by only reading the best lines of the best works of literature...
...archipelago at the turn of the century. Unfortunately, the scope of In Our Image has muted the drama of Marcos' inexorable downfall. Karnow provides fascinating new details about Ronald Reagan's reluctant abandonment of Marcos and his less than warm relationship with Corazon Aquino. But that story, the most familiar to contemporary readers, feels perfunctory and overly concise in the book. Set against the turmoil of the Philippine past, it is merely a loud echo of older patterns in the historical cycle of the islands...
...LUCK CLUB by Amy Tan (Putnam; $18.95). A bright, sharp-flavored first novel on the subject of growing up ethnic in the U.S. The topic sounds familiar, but the Chinese spice added to this old recipe is invigorating and refreshingly true...
...sources familiar with the deliberations said all crucial votes already had been taken and had gone against Wright on the two most serious charges: that he violated House rules by accepting gifts from a business partner with an interest in legislation and that he evaded limits on collecting speaking fees through bulk sales of his book Reflections of a Public...
...Gould's interest is eclectic," said Wilder. Duke students have said they are familiar with Gould's work from social science and psychology as well as science, he said...