Word: momentous
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...That was a standout moment of the weekend,” Smith said. “It was good to end on a really awesome goal—especially for Kristina to end her last game...
...truth, as the product of a mixed-faith family with victims on both sides, my own understanding is conflicted. The Irish, northern and southern, are proud of our diaspora: We value our connectivity and we like to see you visiting, but we don’t believe for a moment you know a hill of beans about the truth of our province or its problems. And when you’ve tried to apply what you think you know, you’ve actually caused us more harm than good. Sometimes in life, the best...
...under threat, or that the possibility of dying for being a humorist is unfair. But these people miss the fact that the very exercise of free speech meets with danger—the danger that one will be oppressed by some influence, whether vigilante violence or state power. The moment when we are unwilling to protect the rights of our fellow because of possible violence against him or those around him, we sacrifice free speech as a right and relegate it to a privilege of convenience...
...identifying the original questioner, whose inquiry was left unsigned. But the nature of the response—supportive, empowering, uplifting—reflects the general ethos of the stalls. Forget the faces behind the questions and the personalities that extend far beyond the writing. At the very moment that a student leaves her anonymous mark on the wall of that bathroom stall, she knows that she is in a safe space, an open space without faces or names...
...Today we are in a critical moment," he said...