Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is a absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...urging more radical solutions. Carol Downer, director of the Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centers, based in Los Angeles, travels widely to talk to women's groups about "menstrual extraction," a home-abortion procedure she co-developed in the early 1970s. A suction technique similar to the vacuum-aspiration process that is now the most common form of first-trimester abortion, it requires a 50-mL syringe attached to a flexible plastic tube, which withdraws the contents of the uterus and deposits them into a closed container...
...Fantasy floods in where fact leaves a vacuum," Miss Lettice Douffet declares in the first act of Lettice and Lovage. Lettice Douffet, played by the inimitable Julie Harris, has inherited the love of theater from her actress-mother, and she demonstrates it passionately...
...land swept successively by Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, Tatars, Russians and finally communist bureaucrats. During 70 years of heavy-handed rule, Soviet administrations made every effort to standardize life and co-opt Islamic culture. The abrupt end of Moscow's power has left a yawning political and spiritual vacuum. Since most of the region's Muslims have predominantly Turkic ethnic roots, the tug is between two versions of the Islamic state: the secular, Westernized Turkey and the radical, anti-Western Iran...
...write of the need for a spiritual Jihad, ostensibly a struggle for the soul of the individual believer, their devotees hear in that call a traditional summons for a holy war against non-Muslims, especially the Jews of Israel. "The killings near Galed didn't come out of a vacuum," says Elie Rekhess, an expert on Israeli Arabs at Tel Aviv University...