Word: rest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suggests putting a small bottle of oil to the ear, the better to hear the ancient waters. At another he intones, "You can't find oil if you are not honest; I'm not sure I know how to explain this." The rueful part, after the semicolon, redeems the rest. He natters on about his girlfriend, Elizabeth Hughes, whose mild, pleasant drawings accompany the text. Is he happy with her? Without her? Will they marry? One wonders whether, as a suitor, he will ever top an early gambit, when he invited her to a park to share a bacon-lettuce...
Another Nixonesque argument is that economic sanctions would force China to cut itself off from the rest of the world, Yang says, countering that in the modern era, China already has too many ties to other nations to be able to isolate itself...
...University settling with the clerical worker's union is going to affect each and every other union when it comes to negotiations," said union president Richard Mederos, who is currently renegotiating the police officers' contract with Harvard. "What you gave them, you will have to give to the rest...
...Supreme Court's nine justices, split as widely as the rest of the population, temporarily deferred on the issue of abortion to the people, through their state legislatures. Although some anti-abortion activists are claiming victory after Webster, the Court's decision to allow state legislatures to place some restrictions on abortion merely signals the start of the battle...
...best when walking, since talk itself is an ambling. Toad even talked better to himself when walking -- though if he moved his lips when doing it, he looked like a street crazy. It was at last in the walking that Toad's soul, he found, was most at rest...