Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...election campaign. His Bible was Theodore H. White's The Making of the President, his bedside reading the speeches of John F. Kennedy, his handbook Larry O'Brien's campaign manual. As he crisscrossed the country, he studded each of his orations with at least one Kennedy idea or phrase...Labor's election manifesto read like the New Frontier, with its promise to get the nation moving again along 'a new way of life that will stir our hearts, rekindle an authentic patriotic faith in our future'...It was a carefully wrought blueprint for victory...
...phrase everyone in Grand Forks, North Dakota, eventually utters: You sure can't beat the quality of life here. Never mind that it's like Siberia for half the year and that the only rise in the land is the curve of the planet. Nature can be a witch, they would admit--even before the 500-year flood that submerged the town last week, forcing the evacuation of 50,000 people and sparking fires that destroyed half the historic business district. Still, you just can't beat it. And it took no more than a day or two of watching...
...even waited for a craft to pick us up on several dates, and it didn't happen. Ti and Do both had a lot of depression over that." However, my quote was used out of context. It had nothing to do with so-called control, and in using the phrase "repeated things for so long," I was referring to the way teachers keep repeating basic grammar rules to students. The comment on "frustration" referred to what all of us deal with at times when we are hoping something will happen and it seems to take longer than we wanted...
...international student I arrived here almost two years ago with the phrase "diversity and distinction" imprinted on my mind after a summer spent pouring over the application booklet again and again. However, somewhat to my disappointment, while I have encountered an enormous amount of diversity here at Harvard, I've found it to be a diversity of American viewpoints, of American ideas, and of American students. Diversity as I had pictured it--a diversity of students and viewpoints from around the world--is something Harvard lacks. It lacks so much so that up untill the fall of 1994, this "international...
...Part of the environment" seems to be an apt phrase to describe the intentions of the park's architects. Granite boulders break the smooth, curved lines of the raw-side, burnished-top granite tree planters. And the currently-budding trees are of the same white-flowering variety found around the campus. The park's multiple access paths flow into the landscape seamlessly...