Word: statesmen
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Shoptaw says he intends this in an acclamatory way. The book, he says, "is a lot of fun. The best thing about it is that it has late poetry by the elder statesmen of poetry but it doesn't have that high seriousness. It's not pretentious. It's full of adventures, and you just never really know what's going to happen from one moment to the next...
...Shoptaw says he intends this in an acclamatory way. The book, he says, "is a lot of fun. The best thing about it is that it has late poetry by the elder statesmen of poetry but it doesn't have that high seriousness. It's not pretentious. It's full of adventures, and you just never really know what's going to happen from one moment to the next...
...population; in 1895, for example, every district of Turkish Armenia was subject to systematic pogroms that resulted in the murder of hundreds of thousands of Armenians, demands to renounce their faith and looting and burning of their villages and businesses. The 1915 event served as a catalyst for what statesmen and humanitarians have referred to as the blackest page in modern history. Between 1915 and 1918, 1.5 million Armenians (60 percent of the population) were taken from their historical homeland and marched into the deserts of Syria, where they were beaten, raped, starved, tortured and murdered according to the systematic...
Against Hobart, the Crimson played impressively for long stretches in the second and third quarters, but lost momentum in the fourth period and conceded a late goal that sealed the Statesmen...
...Feeding off of its defense, the Statesmen got the last goal with a little more than four minutes left and put the game out of reach. Although they tried to equalize, the Crimson offense was ineffective in the closing minutes, and the game ended with a Statesmen celebration...