Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April 2, I received a report that our small plane had flown into Iran at a very low altitude, landed in the desert, examined the possible rescue staging site and returned without detection. The pilot reported that it was an ideal place-a smooth and firm surface, adequately isolated, with only a seldom-used country road
...take some comfort in the knowledge that Poles themselves are keeping the faith, even in the face of death. As Archbishop Jozef Glemp said Sunday in response to the banning. "We know that what is just, what is an ideal, cannot fall. Structures can be abolished, but no idea can disappear...
...high on the list of potential applicants' worries. Just this summer, in a well-publicized incident, a Black couple and their two small children were attacked while their car was stopped at a red light by young whites shouting racial epithets. Until Harvard can turn Boston into an ideal of racial cooperation, minority students will still have to deal with special concerns...
...brother Mason are pretty much on their own in their tumbledown ranch house. Their mother is dead and their father is a rodeo performer who often forgets to send money home to the boys. In teen-age fantasies, the kind of autonomy they enjoy is widely held to be ideal, and it may be that the largest purpose of the movie, faithfully based on one of S.E. Hinton's popular novels for young people, is to demonstrate to the impressionable that imagined Edens generally turn out to have a rather large and very real reptilian population...
...more one learns about novelists, the more one realizes how little they make up from scratch. Those who believe in fiction, however, will find such matters of secondary interest. Will Knott, who sketches his surroundings on the backs of K-ration boxes, speaks to William Wharton's ideal reader when he says that his drawing "makes things more real; at the same time, not so real." -By R.Z. Sheppard