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Word: terrains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wedding of performer and format. Free of the burden of a full stand-up monologue, Stewart is able to put all his energy and wit into the news and guest spots. The word energy is almost too strong. Much of Stewart's humor seems to spring from an underlying terrain of world-weariness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk Show Host: Jon Stewart | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...river of ice shifts, but it's always made up of treacherously crumbly stretches of ice, ladders roped together over wide crevasses, slightly narrower crevasses that must be jumped, huge seracs, avalanches and--most frustrating for a blind person, who naturally seeks to identify patterns in his terrain--a totally random icescape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventure: Blind To Failure | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...river of ice shifts, but it's always made up of treacherously crumbly stretches of ice, ladders roped together over wide crevasses, slightly narrower crevasses that must be jumped, huge seracs, avalanches and?most frustrating for a blind person, who naturally seeks to identify patterns in his terrain?a totally random icescape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blind To Failure | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

Choosing to come here was a shot in the dark that turned out to be surprisingly successful. I’m most pleased about how easy it was to fit in. So much in literature describes coming to America as though it were negotiating some remote terrain. Yet over meals I’ve managed to discuss everything and anything with my friends, from shared childhood memories (sure, “The Cosby Show” was an international hit, but who knew slap bracelets were a worldwide trend in the early ’90s?) to emotional issues (which...

Author: By Daryl Sng, | Title: Finding a Home in Cambridge | 6/5/2001 | See Source »

When Edward R.M. Kane `51 arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1947, he had never traveled further from Massachusetts than New York City. Fifty years later, Kane has spent the majority of his life living in the world's most unstable political terrain...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kane Picks Up CIA Ticket to Travel | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

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