Word: touchingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite emotional. These are issues which touch women of both high school and college age. They told stories about their friends, their family. We tried to give [participants] practical advice and increased awareness," Trinh said...
...fooled by its location. Just becauseit's on a boat doesn't make the museuminteresting. For $4.80 (the student rate) you canlearn everything you've always wanted to knowabout the pre-Revolutionary War tea trade. Plusyou get to throw a "crate of tea" overboard intothe harbor. Caution: don't touch the water...
...balance the budget by 2002. The President defended his budget in part by claiming some of the new spending--$1 billion of it--would go to fight illegal immigration. But the major budget battle lines were being drawn over Medicare, one of several popular entitlements that Clinton did not touch in his proposal to trim $144 billion over five years. Some Democrats also gave Clinton's budget a tepid review, complaining that his $8.1 billion deficit-reduction initiative is too little and that his $63 billion tax cut--part of his "Middle Class Bill of Rights"--is too much...
...this whimsical hobbling of normal syntax? In a Postscript, our author accounts for his mission: "Offhand, with hindsight, I can think of many factors bubbling about in my brain, but I ought to admit right away that its origin was totally haphazard, touch and go, a flip of a coin. It all got out of hand with a companion calling my bluff (I said I could do it, this companion said I could...
...brought everyone to the brink of bad behaviour.'' An honest man and proud of it, he is appalled to hear himself telling her petty lies, mostly in an effort to keep her greed at bay. Meanwhile, she is a determined missionary as she rattles on about getting in touch with ``the essential self.'' Confronted with one of his respectable female friends, she asks, ``Have you considered Colour Counselling?'' When George makes an ironic reference to ``the child inside you,'' Katy corrects him with the scorn of a strict catechist: ``Within...