Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brown's pitcher played smart, throwing around the strike zone, carefully limiting her good pitches, team members said. Once the Crimson got behind on the count, it was less threatening...
After a four-day hunger strike to protest the vacancy of a U.S.-Latino studies tenure-track position at Williams College, 31 students reached a compromise with faculty and administrators late last night...
...would not disclose the nature of the agreement reached after a three-hour meeting that ended at 11:15 p.m. The details of the compromise will be officially released today by noon, at which time the students, who have consumed only water since Saturday, will end their hunger strike...
...What we've asked for has in no way been met, but we have established that there's no more need for a hunger strike to continue the dialogue...and the struggle," said Tanya Nunoz, a senior who has been on a hunger strike since Saturday...
...England's best-seller lists with a neoconservative polemic called Understanding the Present, subtitled Science and the Soul of Modern Man. In Britain, the book inspired headlines such as FOR GOD'S SAKE FIRE THE BIG BANG BRIGADE. Its publication in the U.S. has begun to strike sparks. Science, maintains Appleyard, devalues questions it can't answer, such as the meaning of life or the existence of God. Its relentless advance has driven the magic out of the world, leaving us with nothing to believe in. With no standards, liberal democracies descend into moral anarchy and cultural relativism. Once Galileo...