Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Other times you'll find yourself in seminars with only a handful of other students. These can be excellent, unless you haven't cracked the binding on your overpriced books from the Coop. Believe it or not, students can be notoriously unprepared for class, choosing one more slice at Tommy's House of Pizza rather than reading those last hundred pages of Bleak House...
...Centennial Conference, Hemingway wasknown and evaluated, with few exceptions, based onhis personal ideology and his life and based on thestylistic importance of a tiny slice of hisliterary production. As America's most respectedcontemporary authors--asked which of Hemingway'sworks they found important--read and rereadselections from the short-stories "Big Two-HeartedRiver" and "Killers" and from the 1929 novel AFarewell to Arms, it became clear that the vastmajority of the participants were either ignorantof Hemingway's oeuvre, or that they had judged thegreat mass of Hemingway's writing to be unworthyof consideration as a valuable literary legacy...
...most of their missiles hidden in thick forests, their radars turned off so they remain invisible to NATO's missiles. The Pentagon is particularly interested in rooting out the 30 or so most sophisticated missile launchers--Russian SA-6s--but it admits that it hasn't found a "large slice" of them. No one in the Pentagon knows for sure why the Serbs are holding back, but there is one fear: "They're just waiting for us to fly a little lower and a little slower," says an officer...
...military, however, hasn't given up trying to make the laser into a weapon. Ronald Reagan's ill-fated Star Wars program called for orbiting X-ray lasers to zap enemy missiles, and the Army is still experimenting with battlefield lasers. While they won't slice enemy soldiers in half, they can temporarily blind troops...
...Burren, a pub tucked away behind atraditional Irish facade of window panels and acolorful door, is the product of recent Irishtransplants trying to establish a little slice oftheir homeland in Massachusetts...