Word: finer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second time I felt unutterably alone was several weeks ago when I approached a group of friends, only to discover that they were earnestly discussing the finer points of the upcoming baseball season...
...losing one to the Middies was excusable, because (a) they are one of the circuit's finer teams and (b) Harvard only avoided an 0-4 weekend with a five-run comeback in the second game, finding a way to drop two games to Princeton requires a singular effort...
...possible to explain to the absolute ruler of the Middle Kingdom the finer points of a constitutional system that placed even the highest officials under the rule of law. At the same time, Mao had a point. Watergate interested him primarily for its impact on our fitness to resist Soviet expansionism. The geopolitical consequences threatened to dwarf the original offense...
...weeks or people to adjust to life with less salt. After making the break, many prefer lower-salt foods. Says Ardelle Tuma, vice president of Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott department stores: "I found that unsalted butter has a fantastic taste all its own, and vegetables have a finer, purer flavor without salt." The reason may be that a high-salt diet blunts the natural ability to perceive salt, while cutting back makes the palate more sensitive. Research by Berkeley Food Sciolist Angela Little has led her to believe that "high intake of salt produces a salty background...
...Luojin, a Peking writer, was mortified by her second husband Cai Zhongpei. In fact, she was sure she had married a bumpkin. He never seemed to talk about aesthetics and the finer things of life, only stupid topics like the price of yellowfish. He flailed and hooted like a child while watching soccer games, and when she hauled him to the theater for some cultural uplift, he laughed when he should have cried. One day Yu tried to coax him into reading a book. He snapped: "I've been selected a model worker every year without reading books...