Word: redeem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson will get a chance to redeem itself against the Minutemen on next Saturday in the Northeastern Conference Tournament...
Under a program instituted earlier this month,New Haven merchants sell vouchers that people canpurchase and give to the homeless. Homeless peoplecan then redeem these vouchers at localconvenience stores for food and other necessities,but not for cash, alcohol, tobacco, or lotterytickets...
...appears to be Goldberg's mission in life to redeem improbable situations. It's what she did so profitably last summer in Sister Act, and she's awfully good at it. There's something about her -- a gritty, down-to-earth straightforwardness -- that tends to promise some realization of our wan hopes that potentially explosive circumstances can be defused -- at least for the running time of a movie...
Unsurprisingly, she is an incompetent adulteress. Her advances are rebuffed, except by the dentist, with whom she has an unsatisfying (and unprotected) sexual encounter. Suitably chastened, she seeks in an orgy of expiation to redeem herself by returning to the long-suffering Edward, who as further evidence of his perfection, takes her back. A rapturous reconciliation on his desk proves that faculty offices do have some charm...
...course, out of any desire to injure America. On the contrary, out of ! the deep desire to purify, to redeem America by making it an instrument of justice. The critics do not lack for patriotism. On the contrary, they sincerely wish to ennoble America with a foreign policy of altruism. And because only intervention devoid of self-interest is morally unimpeachable, it is the only kind that a good conscience can support...