Word: reading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they are too frequently cut off before the reader's appetite is satisfied. Flaubert seems to have sought the mot juste, the perfect word, as much in his personal writing as in his novels, and the passages which include letters he wrote are beautiful. It would be better to read a collection of his letters than to read Lottman's biography...
Even for some Republicans on the committee, Bush had gone too far. When he got to read the FBI report, Warner conceded that the document could readily lead to "credible differences of opinion" on what conclusions could be drawn from it. Bob Dole, who is not on the committee, noted that the President "was not totally accurate" in assessing the report. Nunn observed coldly, "That's the President's opinion, and I'm sure he thought carefully about it. It's not my opinion...
...percent is a little steep. When I read the reasons for it I didn't quite buy it," said parent George Lampros, business manager of the chemical labs at Harvard...
...amazed to read that the leader of the Harvard student body, Chair of the Undergraduate Council Kenneth E. Lee, could express pride in his disfiguring of University furniture (February...
Mitchell said he read the FBI report on Tower and met with Bush at the White House where he expressed his concerns about the nomination...