Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...challenges are many, but they seem to invigorate Birkett...
...never really fight," Botterill said one recent evening in the Leverett dining hall. "We just seem to agree on so much...
...makes the absurd seem reasonable, and makes you wonder why you laugh at ethnic jokes, sex jokes and religious jokes in the first place...
American pop music is cruel retaliation for measles, small pox and other emigre diseases stowed in the ships of 17th century European explorers. Pop is more easily communicable, needs no ships and seems impossible to quarantine. After all, what self-respecting group of teenage boys could resist what Bloom calls a "nonstop, commercially prepackaged, masturbatorial fantasy?" The trouble is, it's not just German teenagers who are infected. My family's hosts were mature adults, the owner of the store in Fischen was an elderly Christian soldier who did not seem prone in the least to indulgence in nonstop masturbatorial...
...Chechen capital Tuesday in the face of fierce resistance by its guerrilla defenders. In 1994, Russia suffered heavy casualties - and killed thousands of Chechens, both fighters and civilians - in a vain attempt to take control of the capital. The latest battle may be as grim. "Some Russian leaders seem to believe that anyone who hasn?t fled Chechnya by now is fair game," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "A former prime minister said Sunday that eliminating bandits and terrorists in Chechnya may require wiping out half of the population...