Word: fended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both versions are true; the second follows from the first. The travel industry cherishes Piety 1. The traveler drifts through the world trying to fend off the truth of Piety 2, which declares itself in spasms of denied disappointment. At worst, a nostalgic heartache goes to work, the travel snob's regret, grandchild of an Evelyn Waugh-Somerset Maugham steamship elitism. Lucretius wrote: "Whenever a thing changes and alters its nature, at that moment comes the death of what it was before." A new metaphysic of distances and destinations has taken over the world...
...will break out in parking lots as thousands of motorists compete for 2,000 slots. So many hikers will suffer from exhaustion and other heat-related problems that park rangers will be forced to practice triage, leaving the least seriously affected vacationers at the bottom of the canyon to fend for themselves. Says a harassed park official: "We are being loved nearly to death...
Professors with teenage children say times have changed over the last ten years. While they were left to fend for themselves and find a way to balance academic work and family responsibilities on their own, they say they have noticed increasing University support for working mothers and acceptance of faculty members with outside responsibilities...
...President? One idea floating around the Dole camp is to place Colin Powell on the ticket. Another is to offer Powell, who may be unwilling to settle for the No. 2 job, both the vice presidency and the post of Secretary of State. But that will do little to fend off other G.O.P. hopefuls. Late last week popular Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson formed an exploratory committee for a presidential run. And he could barely contain his excitement...
...must also fend off insinuations from liberal adversaries that his movement's antigovernment stands contributed to the poisonous rhetoric spewed by violent extremists like those responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing. "We must forsake violence of the fist, the tongue and the heart," he said last week, quoting Martin Luther King Jr. "The Christian Coalition provides an avenue to bring alienated citizens into mainstream political action. Were we not here, the ranks of the disaffected would be much larger." He adds correctly that the Coalition, despite its conservative agenda, does not coordinate with the National Rifle Association, nor does...