Word: kind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passionate and inspiring as her novel is, Gordimer emphasizes that the way Rosa chooses is not necessarily hers. "I haven't got the Rosa kind of commitment--it would be terrible to let you think that of me. It's kind of a holy mystery to me, that commitment. What makes them absolutely sure they couldn't live any other...
Denying rumors of Brezhnev's death, several Soviet sources said the president is sick, but they did not identify his illness or its severity. One East European source said his malady is "hardly enough to justify the kind of stories that are going around...
...Pele--no silky smooth movement, no Oscar-winning imitations of a gazelle. No, just good, solid soccer--the kind of play that should see him hitting the post, or just inside of it, with something other than his knee in the upcoming ASL season...
...wanted someone who could be helpful with the fund drive, someone who could be helpful with the New York business community, and we also wanted somebody who knows a lot about Harvard," Putnam said. "He's a forceful kind of person," he added...
...Where have the last feelings of decency and self-respect gone when even our statesmen, in other ways a very unprejudiced kind of man and practical anti-Christians through and through, still call themselves Christians today and go to Communion?...A young prince at the head of his regiments, splendid as the expression of his people's egoism and presumption--but without any shame professing himself a Christian!...The practice of every hour, every instinct, every valuation which leads to action is today anti-Christian what a monster of falsity modern man must be that he is nonetheless not ashamed...