Word: heals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this century, stemmed from the cruelties now worked upon the people. "A man," he wrote, "can be simply or savagely-above all, pointlessly-wiped out, regardless of what he is, means, hopes, dreams or might become. This reality cuts across our minds like a wound whose edges crave to heal, but cannot." "Perhaps the great sin," he felt, "is to say: 'It will heal; it has healed...
...larger plan intended to intimidate his opponent. He doesn't just lunge. He charges; he doesn't just grunt, he screams. He can deliver a light ?? that ?? grazes the opponent's ?? he can be more vicious and leave a well that may rake a coup of days to heal...
Stevens missed the whole point: the arctic ecosystem is full of life (including Eskimos) but is so vulnerable to pollution that the North Slope threatens to become a classic example of man's mindless destruction. The intense cold impedes nature's ability to heal itself; tire marks made in the tundra 25 years ago are still plainly visible. What most worries ecologists, in fact, is man's blindness to his own utter dependency on all ecosystems, such as oceans, coastal estuaries, forests and grasslands. Those ecosystems constitute the biosphere, a vast web of interacting organisms and processes that form...