Word: utterings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lest one think that this contrast is rare, consider the words of the New Republic staff editorial written following the Hebron massacre, which recently rang too true: "When, one needs to ask, did a Middle Eastern government or a Palestinian leader, or even a group of Arab intellectuals utter a word of contrition--to say nothing of words like Rabin's--about any of the scores of incidents in which Jewish innocents were cut down no less brutally than the men at prayer in Hebron, and cut down on orders from some official high command at that? The answer...
...given my mantra, but I never found itspiritually inspiring to utter the mantra aloud,"Barrett says...
...mind and my heart I won. I've learned a lot about myself these last couple of months. There are always some doubts, but I didn't let them enter this year." Others were not so restrained. Her coaches, Evy and Mary Scotvold, refused to utter Baiul's name at a postcontest press conference -- she was instead "the first-place girl." Claire Ferguson, president of the U.S. Figure Skating Association (U.S.F.S.A.), snapped, "Nancy doesn't have that sassy look that Oksana has." It didn't help matters that Baiul's coach, Galina Zmievskaya, marched around wearing the gold medal...
Going to New Orleans always revitalizes me in a curious way. When I return to Memphis, my hometown I feel a sense of utter belonging that comes with complete familiarity I've lived there for 20 years, after all. But when I return to New Orleans, where I was born, I feel as though I'm back in my rightful place. I may not know the layout of the streets or the location of the best restaurant, but I feel as though it's all there somewhere in my subconscious, accessible after drinking few hurricanes...
Mulkerin states, "It's common knowledge there that if you utter 'Yard' to the checkers at Currier, you can have all the monk fish you want without fear of reprisal." Just as Jews couldn't hide their identity in Nazi Germany by stating, "I am Christian," 29G residents can't hide our identities from a checker who has known us as 29G residents all year long and who has a list of all dormitory residents...