Word: guess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only morally attractive character in the book. Jenny Gabriel, dies by becoming food, literally by being eaten by cancer, a practical virtue seems to have no place in Updike's Eastwick. Jenny is summed up and dismissed by a witch who says: "I guess she was one of those perfectly lovely people the world for some reason never finds...
...From whom did Tocqueville, while touring American suburbs, steal his famous one-liner that "the grass is always greener over the septic tank"? Hint: Henry David Thoreau is a good guess, but wrong...
...pathologists' instant guess was that Swale's heart had failed, but in the autopsy no ruptures or lesions could be found. "We're really at a bit of a loss now," said Veterinarian Helen Acland. The brain tissue will not be fully examined for ten days; complete toxicity tests might take a month. The dark carcass of the son of Seattle Slew was sent to Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., for more than the traditional burying of the head, heart and hoofs. As Claiborne's only Derby winner, he rated burial in an oaken casket with...
None of which should be any surprise; just about every aspect of the immigration question is enveloped in emotional dispute, down to the basic numbers. Estimates of how many illegal aliens are already in the U.S. run as high as 15 million; the Census Bureau's guess is somewhere between 3.5 million and 6 million. But there is no question that the tide is rising...
...said, well, even if I don't know what I'm doing now, when I graduate, I'll know exactly what I want to do. I want to know. And instead of knowing what I want to do, it doesn't bother me that I don't know. I guess that's what it means to graduate...