Word: ring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before Tyson picks an opponent, though, he must pick a team of doctors to examine him and make sure he is psychologically fit to return to the ring...
...rolled across the country at the end of this summer, in search of new experiences and sights and sounds alien to the East Coast of my childhood, I kept one line from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in mind, hoping it would ring as true for me as it had for Nick Carraway. "I was simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life," Fitzgerald wrote...
...Where men and women and children go burdenedwith hunger, suffering from preventable diseases,languishing in ignorance and illiteracy, orfinding themselves bereft of decent shelter, talkof democracy and freedom that does not recognizethese material aspects can ring hollow and erodeconfidence exactly in these values which we seekto promote," Mandela said...
Where men and women and children go burdened with hunger, suffering from preventable diseases, languishing in ignorance and illiteracy, or finding themselves bereft of decent shelter, talk of democracy and freedom that does not recognise these material aspects, can ring hollow and erode confidence exactly in those values we seek to promote. Hence our universal obligation towards the building of a world in which there shall be greater equality amongst nations and amongst citizens of nations...
...illustrator in this century made a larger splash than Newell Convers Wyeth. His charged, brilliantly lit images for Treasure Island, Kidnapped and many others still ring with celebration of childhood's fantasies. In this meticulous, satisfying biography, Michaelis captures Wyeth and his times vividly: the artist's gale-force energy and the immense gravity of the family circle from which he and his children (among them America's patron saint of Yankee nostalgia, Andrew) never pulled free. Though a few notes of adulation are too sonorous, they bespeak the kind of bigheartedness that N.C. would have admired. Bully...