Word: seeps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Many young people are not really aware of the Holocaust. I think it's important to know that because it indicates what happens when hate and prejudice is carried to its extreme," said Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf, about the week of remembrance. "we cannot let hate and prejudice seep into even small things in our society...
...invisible, odorless, radioactive gas produced by the decay of uranium in rock and soil, radon can seep into homes through cracks in foundations and drains. Some houses in the Northeast have been found with dangerously high radon levels. Last week the Environmental Protection Agency announced that the health threat posed by radon may be greater than previously thought...
Heavy pot users have common personality traits. They speak noticeably slower than normal, and their words seep out from the back of their throats as if they were trying to say "ah" for the doctor and assume a Californian accent at the same time. They also often allow their mouths to droop open during pauses in conversation, and then stare at you with an awkward yet genuine friendliness reminiscent of the humbly thankful look you give to someone who praises your haircut...
With his work of the 1980s, as complicated as ever but no longer perverse, Gehry has accomplished an extraordinary synthesis of the common and the profound. Now that he allows a measure of classicist calm to seep into his work, he may no longer be written off as an idiosyncratic California bad boy. Gehry must be regarded as one of the two or three most important members of the late-modernist generation -- and maybe the most successful formal innovator...
More generally, the mania students exhibit when the football team beats Yale, when the hockey team beats Cornell, when the crew team beats whoever is this year's runner-up, are outpourings of emotion which create an image of the frivolous Harvard undergraduate, an image which is sure to seep over and stain the administration's reactions to non-frivolous undergraduate projects...