Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shock-to-the-System number one: after Ian Kennish and Brian Farrell both missed tough (but wide open) tip chances, it was Cornell's Jake Karam that got the game's first goal, off a clean two-on-one power play break into the Harvard zone...
...Gluck speaks to the Greeks without adopting their speech, she also eschews personal contract with her readers. Making copious use of the first person pronoun, Gluck nonetheless maintains distance. Although a good deal of Vita Nova is devoted to the regenerating power of memory, the memories recounted are usually slight images of rooms and smells. Gluck reveals herself largely through allegory and the retelling of myth, so that the presence of "I" throughout her book creates an atmosphere of polite poetics that never takes readers into themselves...
...knew that I could not fight back...and he took advantage of his power," she says...
...While advising committees exist in the majority of departments, there are still several departments that retain the single-adviser model," the report reads. "Such a model concentrates considerable power and responsibility in the hands of one individual and is best avoided...
...first action of dictators like Hitler and Stalin, upon seizing power, was to confiscate personal arms," Heston said...