Word: regarded
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Once the insects have paired, they mate openly on tree trunks and branches, without regard for the fact that they can easily be picked off and eaten by predators or squashed and dusted with poison by humans. But most survive, and the female is able to lay upwards of 500 eggs in slits that she makes in twigs. The lives of the adults are soon over, and they die. But in eight weeks the cicada nymphs hatch and burrow down into the ground to reach the tree roots, on which they will feed and grow slowly for the next...
...hysteria of conflict this dual indictment earns Shaw the enmity of his countrymen. Friends cut him dead; libraries remove his books from their shelves. Still his letters refuse to compromise, and their integrity discloses a man of abiding principle, a humorist who, perhaps for the only time, refuses to regard life as an inverted comedy...
Blacks tend to regard the immigrants as uninvited guests at a meager meal. Many believe the newcomers' gains come at the expense of blacks and that a "racist" system benefits the immigrants. Adding to the bitterness is the black perception that America's newest citizens are embracing one of its oldest traits, racial prejudice. Comedian Richard Pryor does a routine depicting a group of Indochinese boat people taking part in their first citizenship class. Lesson No. 1: the correct pronunciation of the word nigger...
While one Peabody official described Perot as "the best thing to happen to anthropology since the discovery of King Tut's tomb," some New York residents now seem to regard him as a corporate raider...
Despite the blockade, however, Hoppenstein said his "respect and regard for Harvard is in no way diminshed." He added that he seeks "no retribution" for the May 2 protest...