Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debate. The spate of pump-priming jeremiads about pork-barrel bills and soft-money corruption that McCain posted on his web site must have seemed utterly appropriate ? but not to Mitch McConnell. "Someone must be corrupt for there to be corruption," McConnell said on Thursday, challenging McCain to come forth with specific charges against individual senators. "How can there be corruption if no one is corrupt? That's like saying the gang is corrupt but none of the gangsters are." And on and on the Senate?s head GOP fund-raiser went, joined variously by Utah Republican Robert Bennett...
Though Cornell eventually managed to win rather handily, the game was a back-and-forth contest between two very evenly-matched teams...
Though both teams were able to hold each other scoreless, they did not keep each other from attempting shots. The game was back-and-forth, shifting from end to end, and each team had ample opportunities to score...
...reflect on how many human generations have come and gone in the interim ? not only how frail is the flesh, but how rare was the deed. Such a bygone event, hearkened, creates nostalgia and longing. That must have been wonderful, to be in audience as those fathers bravely brought forth...
...author, I have despaired of the future of both writing and reading, given the plummeting literary standards and increasing indifference to learning in our era. In so dark an hour, it is nothing short of magical that what J.R.R. Tolkien called the "Tree of Tales" could put forth a green and growing shoot like the Harry books--a branch that can serve as a broomstick to bear us "lands away" and, better still, worlds within. Congratulations, J.K. Rowling, on constructing a real, working transPotter! ANDRE NORTON, GRAND MASTER Science Fiction Writers of America Murfreesboro, Tenn...