Word: omitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is also not to say that Harvard students are morally bankrupt. Roughly 60 percent are involved in some community service activity during their four years here. Many Harvard people act morally; all too often, however, they omit morality from their justifications for their actions...
...skater may gain too much weight. When Tonya Harding added 8 lb. after her 1991 national title, she put herself out of the running. The psyche may also fluctuate: fear of competing, as Fassi notes, is paralyzing. Kerrigan and her coaches, who have lived through her tendency to omit jumps in performance, know this...
...toes or stirrups) in order to bring the line between solid white and team colors higher than the mid-point of the lower leg. No other stockings and/or opaque tape may be worn over the one-piece, two-color uniform stocking. Barefoot punters and place-kickers may omit the stocking of the kicking foot in preparation for and during kicking plays...
...judges were asked to evaluate, on a scale of one to 15, the performance of musician, mathematician or a mile runner, they would not be told to omit the numbers 1, 5, 9 and 13. Not only would such an omission be odd, but it would divide what should be a natural continuum of performance into artificial categories...
...being "about" cities, industry and visions (ironic or not) of progress based on technology. Its mystico-romantic landscape imagery gets edited out. See Marsden Hartley through his heraldic Cubist-based paintings of 1913-14, such as Portrait of a German Officer, that moving, coded valentine of homosexual love, but omit his later, grandly somber images of the Maine coast. Have Georgia O'Keeffe's skyscrapers, not her flowers. And, amazingly enough, leave out John Marin altogether, however much this may distort the actual story of American art between the world wars...