Word: fed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When he was young, he sensed a false view of life being preached by British conservatism, and he turned his considerable wit against it; as he grew older, he sniffed out totalitarian impulses emanating from the left and opposed them too. Spoon-fed the doctrines of literary Modernism--to be profound is to be obscure, the highest art is only to be understood by a cadre of initiates--Amis made rude noises. Coming across the claim that T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is "the century's most influential poem" and "a supremely important poem," he snapped, "Importance...
Freshman Brynne Zuccaro had the best scoring chance of the day, as Stauffer fed her from the end-line, but UConn goalie Siobhan Harold made a diving stop with 17 minutes left...
...refusing to pay its debt to the U.N., the U.S. is abandoning its pledge to international peace. The U.N. has in its 50 years fed and sheltered millions of refugees and eradicated smallpox from the world. Although the U.N. seems to be ineffective, it is as effective as possible while respecting individual sovereignty. Its largest problem has been the unrealistic goals set by the Security Council, of which the U.S. is a member. While the Security Council writes the mandates, in the future it must also provide the resources to enforce these mandates...
...only allowed Arafat to address us, but we also hugged him, kissed him, fed him and congratulated him, in President Rudenstine's words, on his 20 years of "loyalty to the Palestinian cause." Were he alive today, Adolf Hitler, though "interesting" in the extreme, would still not be among those we would invite to our house, nor would we congratulate the man for his "loyalty" to the German people...
...business. Japan's banks are now usually charged a premium of 0.3% to 0.4% for their international interbank borrowing. After Iguchi spoke in court, however, the "Japan premium" nearly doubled for the more troubled Japanese banks. The premium had also edged higher after Leach revealed the existence of the Fed's agreement with Tokyo. The U.S. move had a double-edged effect--while it served to reassure financial markets of an emergency backstop for Tokyo, it also implied that Japan's banks must be in serious trouble...