Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point in the book, Jeremy's mother and object of his Oedipal complex "said in her entire life she'd met only one person more self-involved." The narrator is terribly self-involved, and the narrative cannot help but be overbearing...
...think we fully intend to come back to that beach. I won't tell you we'll be back on that beach tomorrow," Stilling said, adding, "[Exxon's] best judgment at this point is that it's time to move...
...very well just to get to this point," first-year Coach Barry Haskell said. "We played well, and we played hard. The effort and desire of all 15 players was unquestioned. But Princeton is a very good team, and we just didn't have the timely hitting...
...nasty falling-out between normally amicable allies was the result of renewed German demands that the U.S. open talks with the Soviet Union on reducing Europe's short-range nuclear weapons, nearly all of which are deployed on West German soil. At one point, Genscher complained that his country would bear the brunt of a Soviet attack. An exasperated Cheney interrupted Genscher: "Look, if the flag goes up, we're all going to be obliterated, so we don't need to hear any of that...
...drive to clear sea and shore was plagued by snafus and logistical problems. As the weathered oil hardened into a debris-laden "mousse," the Soviet skimming ship found that the crude was too thick for its pumps and managed to recover only a few hundred barrels. And as the point of the oil slick advanced, it stretched supply lines farther and farther from the Valdez staging base. Without proper floating barriers to protect their harbor, fishermen in the village of Seldovia had to fashion their own out of logs, tarpaulins, sheets and towels...