Word: synonyms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only man in my life?" Will she squander her youth on an aging star? Will he choose indulgence or nobility? These and other unsuspenseful questions can be answered at absolutely no cost by bearing in mind that in tennis, and in most novels about it, love is a synonym for zero...
Magadan. It is a name that turns Soviet hearts to ice and evokes memories of the long ago midnight knock on the door. The port of entry to the most deadly archipelago of the Gulag system, it became a synonym for the terror Joseph Stalin visited upon the land. At least 2 million prisoners were worked to death in its gold mines and timber forests and on its road projects. Since then, with few exceptions, the city of Magadan and the vast region around it have been closed to foreigners. When the Soviets permitted a small group to visit Magadan...
...little kid and nice to be around, on or off the stage." He often suggested that he enjoyed special spiritual grace, and some fans concluded he had faith- healing powers. But when he died at home last week after a brief hospitalization, he was best known as a synonym for glorious excess. After an aborted attempt in 1958 at a button-down, close-cropped, low-key look, Liberace came to understand that in the heartland where he found his audiences, less remained less and only more was more...
Liberace, who camped up the classics and became a synonym for glorious excess during an unlikely but enduring career, dies...
...remains wholly aloof from the daily life of Harvard's masses. At various times, most notably upon admission and departure, students are made to feel central to the operation. At most other times, the prevailing orthodoxy is that students must complete their single-minded pursuit of fulfillment--a paternalistic synonym for education...