Word: forthings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size." Because women would adoringly (or pseudo adoringly) mirror men to themselves at twice their real stature and worth (thinks Woolf), the men, thus encouraged, felt wonderful and set forth to build empires. The inclination of American women today is not to mirror men at all, but to judge them at their true size at best -- and sometimes to evaluate them at half-size or quarter-size. Perhaps women have always done that, but they kept their real opinions...
Cornell and Harvard went back and forth for the next few minutes, and with 8:24 left, the game was tied...
...first few minutes of the contest, it looked as if the game would be close. The Crimson and the Big Red wrestled back and forth with the lead for much of the first half. With a little less than nine minutes to go, the score was tied...
...rights tradition--remain firm in our disgust for racist behavior, whether perpetrated as anti-Black racism or anti-Semitic racism. Somebody among the African-American students at Brandeis--a university founded in part by Holocaust survivors--ought to have enough understanding of Dr. King's humanistic legacy to come forth, boldly, and denounce Black History Month invitations to anti-Semites...
...body language shows it, too. During post-game interviews, Snowden glances around back and forth, as if he is looking for someone...