Word: prosaicly
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...will not second-guess the value of any kind of knowledge. Soon the process of exploration that led to the death of my magical herb might lead to the death of the common cold itself. I await this day eagerly, with the more prosaic remedies of Dristan® and Nyquil® at my side...
...their mothers could prove paternity. While that didn't happen too often, the occasional success story gave others hope, and they bombarded the U.S. embassy in Manila with citizenship applications. Older Amerasian girls traded on their exotic-but-familiar looks to marry serving soldiers, later settling in prosaic places like Oklahoma City and Fort Wayne. But with the base gone, so are the servicemen and the link to American passports. Few of the Europeans or Americans who descend on Angeles these days stay long enough to leave more than a vague sense of identity?and sometimes a souvenir baby. Four...
Someone intends for your next glass of water to be peppered with arsenic, and it will not be the prosaic English butler with the devilish glint in his eye. Rather, at the center of this mystery is the president of the United States...
...word means "village people," but that prosaic definition masks the discomfort still felt by a minority that had been branded an untouchable class during Japan's samurai era of the 17th century. In those days, the burakumin were social outcasts: the butchers, tanners and waste-handlers who fell to the bottom of the heap in a five-tier caste system. The archaic social structure went the way of the shoguns during Japan's Meiji transformation in the late 19th century. Yet the burakumin still exist on the fringes of this mostly homogenous society, and fight the age-old battles...
...hype is only half right. Though we have no definite statistics yet, we know that growth has slowed from the white-hot rate of 5 percent to the more prosaic but healthy 1-3 percent. On that basis, the financial media--out of boredom more than anything else--has started wondering if the world is about to end, and whether it will be by fire or ice. The conclusion: either will suffice...