Word: funning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while putting God on display as a character is normally a guarantee of literary disaster, it sometimes seems that stories about his arch-opposite just can't miss. Presumably there is a sound theological basis for all this: virtue could hardly be considered virtuous if it were also indisputably fun, while a patently offensive Old Nick would have trouble procuring the ruin of souls...
...Gorbachev "for real"? Let us look again at the editorial page of the New York Times: "One week ago Russia came of age. She allowed her people all the fun and trappings of a real election -- voting not publicly by show of hands but in private in red-curtained booths behind closed doors." Most people would assume that editorial had been written about Gorbachev's Russia in 1989. In fact, it was written about Stalin's Russia in the 1930s. Gorbachev is certainly not a Stalinist, but he is also just as certainly not a Jeffersonian democrat. We should examine...
...fun for recipients of her largesse, too, though lounge patrons were taken aback when she distributed the bills during the weekend near Midway Airport...
...fun," she said...
...They'll make us practice, but I'm expecting the emphasis to be on pure fun," Vollmer said. "They're making sure we'll be doing much more than football...