Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Princeton and Navy will be in Worcester on Saturday, seeking to redeem themselves for these embarrassing regular-season defeats at Harvard hands. However, after Harvard's victories during the regular season, it would seem that the biggest threat to another Harvard lightweight title at the Sprints would be complacency, rather than any of the boats that the Crimson will face...
...culprits in this." Yes, but in a larger sense of proportion, any fit and rational relationship between the death and suffering inflicted and the gains to be made, seems irretrievably lost. Viet Nam has long since reached the point that no future -win, lose or stalemate-can redeem the present. As W.B. Yeats once asked: "What was left for massacre to save...
Williams has said, "I was brought up puritanically. I try to outrage that Puritanism." As a dramatist, he sometimes practices a reverse puritanism by preaching salvation through the big stud. This holy devil can redeem parched, inhibited and neurotic women, but those who do not avail themselves of his service, like shy, strait-laced Alma Winemiller in Summer and Smoke, seal their doom...
...Your article "The New American Samaritans" [Dec. 27] helped to redeem the sadly faded images of "charity" and "doing good" from their demise at the hands of cynics, ego-trippers and radicals of both right and left...
...year, would go to municipalities to pare education costs. This would ease the burden on homeowners, who pay for schools out of their increasingly heavy property taxes. Because the money would be distributed on a per-pupil basis instead of by school district, the plan would enable Nixon to redeem his pledge to aid parochial schools...