Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Electricity is part of the electronic world that we live in during the week," Tucker said. As a result, traditionally observant Jews often seek to shun the trappings of that world on the sabbath, he said...
Some idler is sure to begin a critique of Stephen Fry's funny, sharp-tongued novel The Hippopotamus (Random House; 290 pages; $21) by referring loftily to the title character as "the eponymous hippopotamus." Shun this pedant, who should consider another line of work. Read the novel, however. Its virtues are cynicism and ill will, directed energetically at all that is trendy and modern, and embodied in the blubbery, whiskified carcass of an out-of-date poet named Ted Wallace...
Lipkowitz says it simply doesn't make sense to shun the resources already provided by PBH for students who want to help their racial communities...
...since they were 12--might actually be drawn to teaching instead of professions like investment banking, because they would rightly believe they could make a decent living as a teacher. As it is now, with the average starting salary for teachers about $23,000, no wonder many college students shun the profession without seriously considering...
Levon Hailey, a panhandler on Church Street, says that although some Harvard students are kind, others shun the homeless because of their upperclass backgrounds...