Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moral high ground and low ground at the same time. I feel like a liberal caught in Hitler's Germany. If I speak out, I run the risk of being shouted down. When I do speak out, my arguments--freedom of thought and expression, the legitimacy of "male" desire--sound dull and lifeless next to the appeals against phallocracy and pornocracy...
Other counseling services, in addition to dorm proctors and advisors, often feed into UHS when they cannot provide adequate service. Catlin says, "We can help them sort [which cases] sound to be more ominous...
...Northwest has also become a smuggler's cove. In January the Coast Guard tracked the 195-ft. Honduran freighter Eagle One as it tried to sneak up the California coast toward Seattle. Just outside Puget Sound, drug agents boarded the ship and took it into dock, where they seized 447 lbs. of cocaine in a welded-shut compartment. Says Robert Dreisbach, spokesman for the Seattle office of the DEA: "The smugglers are moving away from the heavily patrolled ports, and we are particularly vulnerable because of our less dense population along an immense amount of coastline...
...indifferent. But he seems to have short-circuited his feelings with workaholism, a socially acceptable form of avoidance. Money did not become the sole arbiter of emotions until 1973, when his hippie grandson, Jean Paul III, was kidnaped in Italy. Publicly, the wizened billionaire refused to pay ransom, a sound decision since he had 14 other grandchildren and did not want to set a tempting precedent. But after the boy's freshly detached ear was delivered as a warning, the old man lent young Getty's father, Jean Paul Jr., $850,000 to secure his son's release. The agreement...
...children does not come easily. His interviews feature the usual dutiful responses of youngsters to earnest adult interrogation. The long set speeches that his children give are cobbled together from fragments of speech, and Coles is honest enough to admit that the process is apt to make an interviewee sound like a miniature version of the author. In his pages, Coles- like Irish children offer much the same insight as Coles-like Eskimo children: there is good and bad in everyone, and that is the way of the world...