Word: ground
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work of these young Turks--Byzantines ifyou will--is making the encyclopedic classicalknowledge of more traditional scholars irrelevent.It succeeds in creating the "ground-work" forliterary criticism, which scholars weretraditionally able to do only after years ofdetailed study...
...talking to this kid and the next thing I know I'm in UHS," said Maroney, who lost conciousness after his head hit the ground...
...groomed for leadership in the halls of power that honeycomb the sacred ground under the cathedral in Canterbury. He was the golden boy, the whiz kid, the man the archbishops turned to before risking a dangerous political maneuver. He walked the path of God. Name: Terry Waite, the Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy...
...SIXTH-GRADERS, poised for action, could only wait as the tape recorder ground out the Citystep dance troupe's soundtrack at something like quarter speed. Their smiles remained as their poised-for-dance positions grew awkward. Every pair of eyes in Sanders Theater focused on the leg at the rear of the stage that was pointed straight up--and becoming too heavy for a tiny, grimacing dancer to bear. The kids needed to move, needed music, needed Jazz for Relief...
Professor John Womack has objected to the appointment of Dr. Robert Leiken as an associate at the Center for International Affairs on the ground that he is a "propagandist" for the anti-Sandanista forces in Nicaragua. Dr. Leiken, in long articles for the New York Review of Books (a liberal periodical) and The New Republic, a Democratic Party supporter, was critical of the right-wing in the contras, but also critical of the Managua government...