Word: read
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miles from Sioux City, workers in a seed-corn company's research field returned from a lunch break to a startling discovery. In the midst of the corn stood a cone-shaped piece of wreckage, 12 ft. long and 8 ft. high. On one scrap, an inscription clearly read ENG. 2. Some five miles away, other pieces, including sections of the multiple blades of a turbofan engine, were found...
Harvard Square felt positively arctic by comparison: the Crimson thermometer registered only 99 degrees at 1:20 p.m. And in the climate-controlled environs of Lamont and Pusey libraries, the thermometer read only 76. But in the lightless depths of the Widener Library stacks, a set of open windows prefigured a 94 degree reading...
...come home after work, look through the mail, fix dinner, do some gardening, and before you know it, I'm falling asleep in front of "L.A. Law." I throw dinner parties. I was sent a form letter to join the PTA, and I read it with interest...
...handwritten sign hangs beside the door of the Cavendish, Vt., general store: NO REST ROOMS. NO BARE FEET. NO DIRECTIONS TO THE SOLZHENITSYNS. An intriguing story can be read between these lines: not only the presence in this small (pop. 1,355) Vermont town of a world-renowned Russian author but also the determination of his adopted Yankee neighbors to protect his privacy...
...Lenin had little in common with Russian culture. Of course, he graduated from a Russian gymnasium ((high school)). He must have read Russian classics. But he was penetrated with the spirit of internationalism. He did not belong to any nation himself. He was "inter" national -- between nations. During 1917, he showed himself to be in the extreme left wing of revolutionary democracy. Everything that happened in 1917 was guided by ((proponents of)) revolutionary democracy, but it all fell out of their hands. They were not sufficiently consistent, not sufficiently merciless, while he was merciless and consistent...