Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign has been a study of contrasting styles. The bespectacled Taft has a patrician manner, is cool and distant; he eschews personal contact, approaching a handshake as if it were a tarantula. After a recent factory speech, Taft started to leave and a foreman had to remind him to "shake hands with some of the employees, Bob." Rhodes, the burly and gregarious son of a coal miner, is a charming, indefatigable backslapper and campaigner...
...almost morbid fascination with the June war stems from what I consider Israel's real surprise at the nature and extent of its victory. Israelis can watch a painful movie not only for the catharsis of reliving the most important event in their lives, but also to remind themselves that it really happened, that they really...
...there would have been no Hemingway, who took Crane as a source and guide. Without the presence of Negro American style, our jokes, our tall tales, even our sports would be lacking in the sudden turns, the shocks, the swift changes of pace (all jazz-shaped) that serve to remind us that the world is ever unexplored, and that while a complete mastery of life is mere illusion, the real secret of the game is to make life swing. It is its ability to articulate this tragic-comic attitude toward life that explains much of the mysterious power and attractiveness...
...stroke of 12 one night this month, church bells rang, sirens wailed and gongs boomed the length and breadth of Ghana. The noise signaled neither a national holiday nor a sneak air attack. It was meant simply to remind Ghanaians that a new census was about to begin...
Dale has a unique fascination that seems to combine his two major interests-an entire wall in his room is covered with pictures of cats. "Cats remind me of the Orient with their sort of slanted eyes and are well-coordinated and graceful," he explained. "So you might say that they tie Chinese and basketball together. In my courses. I study Chinese, and on the basketball floor. I try to be well-coordinated and graceful...