Word: threads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...returning as an ambassador, he asked, amazed: "Is he really a communist?" The effective blurring of Dobrynin's official position on matters and his own character keeps the reader perpetually guessing at whose side he was really on all that time. In the person of Dobrynin, yet another thread is added to the already complex fabric of Soviet-American relations during the Cold...
...article "New Evidence of a 'Gay Gene''' alongside the piece on transsexual men who feel they should have been born women [SCIENCE, Nov. 13]. While to many readers such an association of topics may seem logical, this connection merely serves to reinforce misbeliefs and stereotypes. The only common thread tying these two subjects together is that of the misunderstanding and prejudice that equate homosexuality with a man's desire to become a woman. Despite the developments covered in your report on transsexualtiy, it is considered a psychiatric disorder; homosexuality is not. Gay men are not transsexuals. By linking these...
...bellies. Well, I think, I'll wake them up, I'll get them moving! And I went to work shaking boughs, bombarding with cones, rustling, hooting...Then I took a closer look, and I was horror-struck. Here's a man with his head hanging by one flimsy crimson thread, there's one with a heap of thick worms for stomach...I could not endure it. I let out a howl, jumped...
Defeated vice-presidential candidate and former Campus Life Committee Co-chair Rudd W. Coffey '97 said there seemed to be a common thread tying together different vote counts throughout the evening...
...slightly raised like a Guido Reni saint as he toys with a gold chain. The other end of the chain is attached to a tame flying squirrel nibbling a nut. Everything in the painting is a show of skill in illusion: the squirrel's pelt, the reflections and the thread of white highlight on the mahogany tabletop, the glass of water (to show how well he could do transparency), the boy's fresh, young skin...