Word: forfend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phrase is both appropriate and curious: appropriate because his little story (104 pages) is mostly about standing in mountain streams with his brother Paul, fly-fishing for trout; curious because Maclean's prose is dry and laconic, nothing watery about it. It does not rush or eddy or -- heaven forfend -- gurgle. It runs steady and clear, and beneath its surface you sense the darting shadows of powerful emotions -- big fish, as it were, which the writer shrewdly plays but never deigns to reel all the way in. The art for this old man, a college professor who did not begin...
...other.' " This, Quayle adds, is "nonsense." Al Gore: "When Bush and Quayle say you have to choose between jobs and the environment, they're wrong." Actually, if Bush and Quayle did say something like that, they would be right. But they don't say it at all. Heaven forfend...