Word: mote
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...drug addict holds a peculiar place in society, not unlike the AIDS victim; the impulse to shun collides with the impulse to embrace. If the addict happens to be your colleague or your daughter, the confusion doubles; there are no impoverished minorities to pity or blame. You become a mote in history. For thousands of years, people have smoked, snorted, injected their way between paradise and self-murder, while the outer world has watched, scolded, legislated, not legislated, with barely the slightest comprehension...
...games are also popular abroad. Dittler Bros. printed a total of 50 million tickets in 1984 for Argentina, Australia, Canada and Israel. Says Robert Mote, a vice president of Scientific Games: "People everywhere like to know if they are winners--immediately...
...beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine...
...world, a world of executioners, of mannequins and robots who coldly calculate the extinction of human beings. The great powers turn their backs. They say, "Aren't these fine sentiments?" But John Paul spoke to people, not to governments ... This is not to say that he sees the mote in his own eye. His views of women are old fashioned, and they are probably not going to change. We can't have apartheid at the altar...
...more than middling small. From his first day in football as a seventh-grader-when a 4-ft. 4-in. schoolmate looked down at Pruitt (who was an inch shorter) and dubbed him "Shorty"-Pruitt has been undersized and overly successful-an All-America and Pro-Bowl mote darting elusively through forests of giant defenders. Says Pruitt: "I've had to play at this size all my life. I've always been the smallest guy on the field. The thing that would catch my attention would not be a big guy; it would be to find another...