Word: portion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mononucleosis has cut a sizeable portion of the Crimson varsity from the match, but as is usual with Coach Jack Barnaby's teams, there are plenty of competent reserves to hold the fort...
WHAT are the values that Miller would have us rediscover, beneath our civilized facades? His book is itself these values. This certainly does not mean that art, as a diversion from life, will provide the missing purpose and fulfillment. The book is Miller's value because it is a portion of life from which he has forced a value in his own personal struggle. He would have us enter into the artistic experience itself, to live life in the kind of ecstasy with which the artistic consciousness perceives it. Like Joyce, Durrell, and others, Miller wants his audience to emulate...
...QUEMOY AND MATSU. "Now I said to them [the Chinese Nationalists], as my military advice, not political advice, 'You would be much stronger to keep your major portion of your reserves in Formosa and the Pescadores, and make Quemoy and Matsu two real outpost fortresses. That is, have as few as possible troops, but heavily armed, and make them difficult to take.' Because remember, our doctrine did not say that the U.S. was committed to the defense of Quemoy and Matsu. It said that if the President determined that any attack on Quemoy and Matsu was a mere...
...traditional job of homemaking takes up a portion but nowhere near the entire span of a woman's life today," she said. "One approach to this problem is to build up the role of the homemaker, to declare that 'Nothing is more important than motherhood...
...most thrilling portion" of this project is creating the actual pattern of life for the inhabitants, he felt. Observing that the "average American child at the age of five is a complete wreck," Skinner said the child must be supervised 24 hours a day from birth...