Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...systematically silenced anyone who dares to question detente and the Soviets' motives-- this is, voices of moderate Republican reason have been shouted down by those who cry McCarthyism. But if the two European journalists were to take a close look at the right in America today, they would probably shed fewer tears. Anti-Soviet rhetoric, increased defense spending and conspiracy theories are de rigueur these days, and Ronald Reagan may ride into office on their public appeal...
...systematically silenced anyone who dares to question detente and the Soviets' motives-- this is, voices of moderate Republican reason have been shouted down by those who cry McCarthyism. But if the two European journalists were to take a close look at the right in America today, they would probably shed fewer tears. Anti-Soviet rhetoric, increased defense spending and conspiracy theories are de rigueur these days, and Ronald Reagan may ride into office on their public appeal...
...bound to be moving. But Heartsounds is far more than case history. Martha Weinman Lear is a born writer, and the resonances in her prose go back to Greek tragedy with its catalogue of grief and noble despair. By the cathartic ending, when there are no more tears to shed and no more afflictions to remember, Martha Lear is finally able to forgive. She realizes that the professionals could not per form a miracle: "The doctor does not exist who could treat such a gravely ill patient for such a long time without making mistakes . . . given their mortal limitations, they...
...Afro-American Studies Department spent another year trying to shed its reputation as a trouble spot...
...work may also shed new light on the most cosmic of questions: Where is the "missing mass" holding the galaxies and even the universe together? It could be countless neutrinos (actually, scientists estimate the number to be 1087, or one followed by 87 zeros). Their collective gravity could perhaps sufficiently slow down the current expansion of the universe, which has been under way since the Big Bang some 20 billion years ago. If the rush of galaxies away from one another could be reversed, they would eventually come together in a cataclysmic collapse...