Word: mentioner
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...taken into the back room, where there were racks of clothes, stacks of invoices and, surprisingly, a box of Yankee Doodles on top of the microwave. I was handed a five-page booklet on the brand philosophy, which is "paradox." Nowhere in the five pages does it mention that trying to sell clothes while being mean to customers is a paradox, but I wrote that...
...idea that a shuttle had been aloft for the last 16 days. Israel’s attention had been fixed on themission; their first man in space was on board. But for Americans, this was just another routine shuttle flight; its takeoff and landing would get a passing mention on the evening news, nothing more...
...Without belittling the horror of that day, I do sometimes wonder if America’s concentration on that one day is dangerous self-absorption,” pointing out the greater number of civilian deaths in Middle Eastern countries that the American and European media rarely mention...
...think they both proved that they belong and deserve mention with the best players in the nation,” Palazzo said. “They are big time players even if they didn’t attend a ‘big time’ football school. They have silenced a lot of critics of Harvard football...
...endless free time the trio enjoys, life in Phoenix on the Sky seems less re-education camp than Mao's Outward Bound. But Seamstress, which earned a Golden Globe nomination for best foreign-language film, achieves moments of quiet beauty as well. Ma sheds confused tears at the mention of Balzac's Chinese translator, punished as a reactionary like Ma's father; Luo reads Ursule Mirouet out loud as if it were freshly written, while the seamstress lies in his lap and dreams of a new world...