Word: submits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those amateurs have more than a love of their subjects. Judith Thurman views the practice as a form of alchemy. Describing the clear consomme made by Isak Dinesen's African cook, she writes, "You keep the spirit, but discard the rough ingredients: eggshells and raw bones. You then submit them to fire and patience. And the clarity comes at the end like a magic trick." The recipe stands as a metaphor for all well-written Lives...
...wishes. "The only thing I'm concerned about is that the project fit the specifications," he says. Houses have received money to produce plays, present concerts and poetry readings, pay royalties for the production of recent plays or buy lighting equipment. House committees consider residents suggestions, choose one and submit it to Epps...
...doesn't the College require undergraduates to turn in non-binding study cards at the end of each preceding term? (Freshman could submit their fall-term cards over the summer.) That measure would not eliminate the rushing around that currently prevails, but it would certainly cut it down: administrators would not be off by hundreds when they schedule classrooms, and students would have an early indication of which courses are going to require lotteries. Standing Room Only is a sign that belongs outside a theater, not a classroom...
Trying to strengthen her government, Mrs. Gandhi two weeks ago asked all 60 members of her Council of Ministers to submit resignations. She fired only seven ministers and named a dozen new ones, prompting criticism that she lacked the nerve to undertake a wholesale housecleaning. Luckily for Mrs. Gandhi, the opposition parties are at least as disorganized as her Congress Party; no candidate has emerged as a serious rival for 1985, and her personal popularity remains high...
...evenhanded and that all opinion be carefully labeled. But there exists another vast part of the press, highly visible at any newsstand, where being one-sided ("specialized" is the preferred word for it) is the very reason for being. These journals set their own standards, which their subscribers happily submit to; and fairness is not necessarily one of the rules...