Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...large group of challengers, three have put forth candidacies of note. Donald E. Harding has campaigned hard to become the first council member from the city's poor Area Four in 40 years, and, if elected, would draw much-needed attention to the concerns of Cambridge's sizable working class population. Robert Winters, a preceptor in the mathematics department, has attended council meetings regularly for 10 years, and his experience would also make him a good addition to the Council. Finally, Ian M. MacKinnon has run a spirited campaign based on his support for the arts. But, given the candidate...
...gradually formed a world outlook of an "integration of the universe and humanity." China produced in its long history many outstanding philosophers, thinkers, [government leaders], strategists, scientists, writers and artists, and left us numerous volumes of literature. The scene of "contention of a hundred schools of thought" brought forth the Spring and Autumn Period 2,500 years ago and the Warring States Period over 2,200 years ago and the emergence of various schools of thought and their exponents, such as Lao-tzu and Confucius, about 2,400 years ago. All occupy a very important position in the world history...
...woeful waste of criminal talent. For some three decades Donald E. Westlake has operated a kind of literary halfway house for the morally rotten, propping up an entire repertory company of safecrackers, bank robbers, funny-money artists and miscellaneous boodlers after their inevitable job-related mishaps and sending them forth to steal again in novel after novel. His best-known wrongdoer is an amusing burglar named Dortmunder, whose fumble-thumbed approach to grand larceny is that of a tax accountant trying to bolt together a backyard barbecue. The unstated, slyly effective joke of the Dortmunder series (The Hot Rock; What...
...teams battled through a scoreless first half. The momentum swung back and forth slightly, but neither team could capitalize on its scoring chances...
...just the kind of back-and-forth game which the final score indicated. But the relatively normal final score proved to be misleading, as the two teams put on an exhibition of unconventional scoring...