Word: firsthand
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Students at the College can even appreciate his contributions firsthand when they pass the Malkin Athletic Center—diminutively known as “The MAC”— on the way to the river...
Having witnessed such a cataclysmic event firsthand, he says that receiving the Pulitzer was comparably an “anticlimax...
...credible evidence that one was ever tossed in a toilet. Three incidents were probably deliberate and two inadvertent, Hood said late last week. He added that his team had reinterviewed a detainee who had previously told FBI agents he had witnessed a Koran toilet episode but now has denied firsthand knowledge of any Koran desecration...
...These aren’t solely my techniques; I haven’t used many of them. But I have seen firsthand how raising these simple points can lead to big results in both the general and presidential election cycles...
...recognize when it has ceased to function effectively in other countries. Multiparty democracy certainly hasn't worked very well in Nepal since its inception 14 years ago. The King took control of the government three months ago, and since then there have been some positive results. I know firsthand that the government bureaucracy functions more efficiently. Additionally, corruption is being rooted out. Sometimes a benevolent dictator is required to govern the less developed. If King Gyanendra turns out to be benevolent, he will be remembered in history as the father of modern Nepal. Give him a chance. F.A. Hutchison Kathmandu...