Word: unread
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...United Nations on a different planet? Are reports from here totally unread south of the Hudson?" HANS BLIX, retiring chief U.N. weapons inspector, asking why the U.S. expected to find prohibited weapons in Iraq when his team had reported none prior...
...book would look handsome on a coffee table or a bookshelf—and that is, alas, exactly where it belongs, unread and perhaps even unopened. Listening to Rudenstine speak publicly was always a painful experience; with his oddly halting delivery, he often seemed like he was desperately fighting off a speech impediment. But one always held out a faint hope that the words themselves were packed with meaning, obscured by Rudenstine’s colorless manner of speech but there nonetheless and only waiting for a diligent critic, a Boswell to Rudenstine’s Samuel Johnson, to reveal...
...unofficial results will be finalized today when the remaining “auxiliary” votes—ballots unread by the scanner because they were marked for a write-in candidate, creased, or simply left blank—will be added to the totals. In 1999, there were “roughly 200 valid” auxiliary votes, according to Election Commissioner Lynne Molnar...
...inspired by the goings-on in Brunei, I decided it was time for some serious mid-summer cleaning. Just like my new hero, the good prince Jefri, I am going to embrace minimalism: Good-bye to the extraneous belongings cluttering up my life. Adios to the stacks of unread magazines. So long to the furniture taking up precious floor space. I will catalogue, tag and drag my possessions out into the sunlight, and await bids from the public...
...homeward hour: I returned thinking of books unread. "Comics und Religion: Eine Interdisziplinare Diskussion" shares this mental shelf with "Illuminated Pages of the Codex Amiatinus." But turning up the road towards Lowell in the early dusk I saw its facade lit up like a storyboard: numberless lighted shelves in which my classmates read, gesture, change clothes, argue and disappear...