Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj. New Delhi officials said he had been born in Saigon of an Indian father and a French-Vietnamese mother. Gauthier is believed to have spent his boyhood in Paris and trained as an engineer in Japan. Along the way, he learned six languages and became a master of karate...
...middle-class husband was that he had lost his domestic clout. It is hardly more than a decade, in fact, since wits began describing the commuting husband as a "yard man with sex privileges." Now it appears that whatever happened in the den and kitchen, this henpecked hacker remained master and monster through it all?at least on the courts...
Penal Collar. Solomon is equally perceptive about China's preoccupation with the printed word. He traces its cultural continuity from the Confucian classics to the thoughts of Chairman Mao. An ancient government bureaucrat advanced by studying the classics. Today his ambitious counterpart must master Marxism as the primary qualification for success in virtually any field...
Their coaches were great; their performances were great. Now if our great sportscasters could only muster and master a second adjective...
...addition, Koestler offers a blizzard of information but not enough hard facts to support his thesis. As in the past, he is a master of the conditional assertion ("This would be added evidence ..."). Unfortunately, the approximately four-century history of Khazaria is thin in primary source material. The kingdom seems to have flourished as a crossroads of East-West trade. Persecuted Jews from Byzantium are believed to have flocked to Khazaria, where they intermarried with their Caucasian coreligionists. When Genghis Khan's Mongols swept westward in the 13th century, Khazaria's Jews fled to Eastern and Central Europe...