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...months, at least until the party holds its congress in early summer. "As President," he told the parliamentarians, "I want to wish the Communist Party -- the country's most influential political force -- success in implementing its platform for its 28th Party Congress." Those words had the sound of a fond farewell...
Stager, who directs a dig in Ashkelon, Israel, theorizes that one of the series of cultures that lived in the city--Phoenicians, Persians, Egyptians or Greeks--was especially fond of dogs. So fond that the people carved out a prime piece of coastal property for a pet cemetery, he says...
...Incidentally, had Davis employed any of the "dreary methods" --rigorous polling techniques and statistical analyses--of which he is so fond, he would have found that Social Studies are not disproportionately likely to pursue law careers...
...same applies to the liberal use of quotation marks, which run through the books like tiny underscoring arrows. The Message to the Planet is overly fond of this intrusive nudging. Here is the latest Murdoch female masochist in full lament: "Franca contained in her breast a storm of anguish and violence so terrible that she had at times, when she was alone and longing to 'break down,' to clutch her breast." Terrible, for that matter, is a favorite word. So are appalling, awful, horrible, dreadful and all forms of the word dark. "These dreadful ideas, horrors from the past...
When I hung my Confederate flag over a month ago, I hung it with all the pride and fond memories I have of the Southern culture in which I was raised. After living for a year and a half at Harvard, away from the lifestyle I love, I was comforted by the sight of the flag. I placed it in my window with pride, but eventually learned that my flag had been totally misinterpreted and misunderstood by many...