Word: reckonings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just over 1% of those who fled Cuba last year for the land of "open hearts and open arms" that was promised by President Carter. Of the 800 crammed into a penitentiary in Atlanta, six are awaiting judicial action on petitions similar to Rodriguez's. Most reportedly reckon that if they must be locked up somewhere, they would prefer to be back in Cuba, where at least the food is better...
...Woolf's, are also vibrant with immediacy, intimacy and often indiscretion ("Why," she asks, "is it so pleasant to damn one's friends?"). With her aristocratic sense of decorum she may have felt that their very privacy was what made them unpublishable. If so, she failed to reckon on this age's voracious, ransacking appetite for all that is private in a writer's life. As significant as her novels may be in the canon of modernist fiction, what really makes her writing live today-and what largely accounts for the current Virginia Woolf boom...
...special thing about this season's version of Harvard football is the specialty squad. If football and war are the ultimate team games, the Crimson boasts quite an infantry--one the Bulldogs will have to reckon with come Saturday...
Everything seemed set a week ago. Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the speaker of the Majlis, was sure he had enough support to put the deal to a vote. Back in Washington even the most skeptical officials were optimistic. But they, like Rafsanjani himself, neglected to reckon with the ingenuity of Iran's diehards ?left-leaning Muslims and mullahs who opposed any compromise whatsoever with "the Great Satan America." On Thursday, the day set for the Majlis debate, about 70 deputies stayed home or refused to take their seats, preventing a quorum and thus blocking a vote...
Hiatt said he expects attempts to modify the proposition. "If they are in the intersts of the bill, I'm sure a compromise can be worked out, but if they are attempts to frustrate its basic intent, the legislature will have to reckon with us and the voters," he said...