Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proponents of the idea have now tried to characterize the proposal as one for a memorial to alumni who died during the Civil War. But there is no clear precedent for such a memorial and it would cheapen the sacrifice made by Harvard's Union war dead to lump them together with those who lacked the courage to stand against the unjust and immoral regime in place in the Confederate South. There are probably a number of Harvard alumni who died doing the Devil's work, but there is no high-powered task force set-up to commemorate them. Singling...
...precisely at the moment that I envision myself clapping, a lump develops in my throat. The Yasser Arafat of yesterday is still very much alive, maybe not in the news, but in my mind. He was the head of the P.L.O., an organization recognized across the world as one heavily involved in terrorist activities...
...means, namely the pursuit of peace via the strategies of war, today this image conveys the dichotomy between the Arafat of today and the Arafat of yesterday. He brings peace, but he brought war. As we clap for the former, it is the latter action which leaves the lump in our throats...
...Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin can shake Arafat's hand with what is probably a much larger lump in his throat than mine, I can certainly bring myself to applaud. Not too loud though, and without any cheering--an ambivalent applause. Arafat does not deserve to be received with whole-hearted approval and respect. The Arafat of today should not be let off the hook for the crimes he committed yesterday. As he gets up to speak he should feel the same lump in his throat which he has caused so many others to feel...
...thing we can do differently is instead of giving a lump sum of money, is to direct it to...something more specific to our class," Cahn said...