Word: lifeblood
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...ocean has long been the lifeblood of the New England economy, and all along the coast fishing, whaling and shipping ports testify to the crucial role the sea has played in the history of the region...
...petulantly, "But Eliot, that man isn't modern. He wrings the past dry and pours the juice down the throats of those who are either too busy, or too creative to read as much as he does." "The juice of the past" isn't a bad description of the lifeblood of The Waste Land; but it was a past so disarranged--with the Buddha next to St. Augustine, and Ovid next to Wagner--that a reader felt thrust into a time machine of disorienting simultaneity. And the poem had an unsettling habit of saying, out of the blue...
...allocate $90,000 and we have requests for $200,000," Stewart said. "Studentgroups, which are the lifeblood of non-academiclife here, are operating under severe financialconstraints...
...greater student autonomy; the Core, which few professors and even fewer students believe is intellectually meaningful; even our anachronistic schedule, with finals after vacation, which is decried every year as excessively stressful and unpleasant. The administration seems to exist entirely independently of the undergraduate students who supposedly are the lifeblood and purpose of the College's existence...
...people who have read a lot," says Bradley-Moore. Bertozzi adds, "I'm glad my parents did it, because now I just kind of see through television. Commercials just roll me. Now, there are some programs that I think are really worthwhile, like "The Simpsons"--the Simpsons are the lifeblood of America--but most of it is just a waste of time...