Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel that I belonged not merely in my immediate family at home, or even the big family of the village, but in something vaster and more significant: the land. It was that feeling that made me, on the way home at sunset, watch the evening scene with a rare warmth, recognizing an invisible bond of love and friendship with everything around me?smoke rolling down the valley, promising a delicious meal at the close of a village day, and perfect calm and peace in the hearts...
Chairman Alfred Kahn, 60, a Cornell economist who was appointed by Carter in May, is one of the rare bureaucrats who is trying to put his agency at least partly out of business. Under him, the CAB has given the airlines more freedom to lower fares and expand charter flights. Kahn is impatient with bureaucratic obstructionism. He learned, for example, that a petition by the city of Columbus, Ohio, for more airline service had not been answered for eight years by the CAB. An aide recalls Kahn's mastication of the responsible bureaucrats: "He bit them so hard...
...Evangelical with a social conscience you've got one of God's true saints." Saints work miracles and are very rare indeed. Evangelicals make swarms of converts, a good many of whom, as in all religions, do not remain strong in their conviction. Even so, the burgeoning new empire of Evangelicalism has already challenged the more staid religious establishment and set off hopeful echoes in the national spirit...
...York City's great gastronomic pleasure domes. At hand in Macy's Cellar are 200 varieties of cheese, 100 jams and jellies, 50 breads, a dozen coffees and 40 teas ? as well as an Aladdin's palace of equipment wherewith to transform the raw stuff into rare meals...
Scott is why they are there, and Jeremy Geidt, Michael Gross, Max Wright and Stephen Rowe convey that with rare skill and sensitivity. Unfortunately, Hill, while decent as a saint, lacks the lightning that fires blind fealty in other...