Word: groped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Good sportswriters can do this. Not so good ones try, but often end up exaggerating--they grope for significance when it's just not there...
...horrible day 1,600 years ago, the wisdom of many centuries went up in flames. The great library in Alexandria burned down, a catastrophe at the time and a symbol for all ages of the vulnerability of human knowledge. The tragedy forced scholars to grope to reconstruct a grand literature and science that once lay neatly cataloged in scrolls...
...essential one, peripheral until communism crumbled in the East, is between "deepening" and "widening": Should Western Europe accelerate its drive toward closer economic and political integration among the 12 members of the European Community, or reach out beyond them to the impoverished, bewildered East European countries as they grope their way toward viable free- market economies? Britain -- and increasingly the German government -- argues that priority should be given to developing assistance programs for the fragile Eastern democracies, whose political stability and economic recovery are essential for all of Europe...
...will have to painfully grope our way toward a health care system that will be worthy of our aspirations," Relman said...
...trying now: a grope for words...