Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five police officers guarding the gate do not seem as enthusiastic as the students. Their expressions indicate they would rather be apprehending a lunatic waving a loaded assault rifle. I choose not to enter...
...first draft of history, what is photojournalism? Is it the first impression of history, the first graphic flash? Yes, but it is also (and this is the disturbing thing) history's lasting visual impression. The service that the pictures perform is splendid, and so powerful as to seem preternatural. But sometimes the power they possess is more than they deserve...
...when higher education is big business, when "prestigious" diplomas mean as much as they ever have, and financial scandals seemingly touch almost all the nation's most respected institutions, it does not seem too much to press harder for open information from the schools themselves. If they do not owe it to Justice Department investigators, they owe it to their own pursuers of the truth...
Range after rocky range, the mountains of northern Nevada soar above the arid flats. From the air their sagebrush cloaks seem as soft as crumpled velvet. Suddenly a series of gigantic holes looms below, so huge that if they were the size of anthills, the ore trucks and bulldozers scurrying over them would be the smallest of ants. "Some people see these holes and think they're hideous," muses John Livermore, a tall, lanky exploration geologist from Reno. "Others think how wonderful it is that man can do something...
WORLD: East Germany's leaders seem willing to lend an ear to the nation's newly vocal opposition movement...