Word: mortality
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Coffee cups in hand, smiling sweetly at each other across crossed legs and the crowded desk, we were nonetheless locked in mortal combat. I was a mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper. Age: 22. Sex: Female. Object: To find out anything I could about women's training at Fort McClellan, Alabama, home of the Women's Army Corps. She is Post Information Officer for the same Fort McClellan. Age: Forty-ish. Sex: Female. Object: To help me in any way she possibly could. In other words, we were deadly enemies...
...every tatter in its mortal dress. -W.B. Yeats
...both support and strong criticism in the same issue of the Hastings Center Studies from Dr. Leon Kass, a physician and molecular biologist who works in biomedical ethics. Kass takes issue with Ramsey's view of death as an "indignity," insisting instead that "to live is to be mortal." Jewish, if not Christian teaching has generally held that view, Kass says; evolutionary biology confirms and strengthens...
Families are a funny breed. They draw, spill, suck and drink the blood they share. They seem to survive everything with dumb granitic tenacity. What they give to each other is measureless, like divine grace; what they take is inexorable, like mortal fate...
...promises; they could grow so used to glory that they could come to need it in order to know who they were. Yes, they could wrestle with the self as much in a day as most people do in a lifetime. Then they could also find their stardoms mortal hells...