Word: posing
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...more. One side has won, one has lost; and the children of the losers have the choice of "re-education," hunger or the sea. The children of Viet Nam have known war, and they have also known the consequences of war. They thus offer an opportunity to pose the one question that has been hovering over all these children, which is a question about the future...
Some neighborhood leaders have speculated recently that the Craigie building in its current condition constitutes an eyesore and could pose a potential obstaele to the University Place project...
Three panelists speaking at the Kennedy School of Government last night agreed that peace movements in Western Europe pose a serious obstacle to efforts by the United States and other NATO countries in designing and implementing effective nuclear strategies...
...last chorus, a pirate sidekick appears with a small bird-cage, which the king solemnly takes up and proceeds to give the broadsword treatment. To the chorus's strains of "hurrah for the pirate king," the song concludes with the king in an epic pose, with his new weapon, holding it above his head in an outstretched arm, completely oblivious to the fact that it is not Excalibur. It is an inspired and unprecedented touch that instantly reveals the winsome befuddlement of a buccanneer who refuses to plunder orphans and yields at once when Queen Victoria's name is involved...
...just as hilarious-and profitable-when they are dead. English-educated Simon Bond, 34, a bachelor who lives in Phoenix and London, was encouraged to publish 101 Uses for a Dead Cat by his friend Terry Jones, a Monty Python regular. Deceased felines in Bond's black humor pose as toast racks, pencil sharpeners and potholders. Although the book has sold 765,000 copies in the U.S., the mood is too indigo for some ailurophiles. Says A.S.P.C.A.'S John Kullberg: "Coming upon the book is akin to being a member of the Moral Majority and seeing 101 Uses...