Word: vaguest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is only the vaguest idea of a military mission to accomplish: from the platoon's point of view, and ours, their only objective is to emerge from the jungle at the end of the day with arms and legs and life intact. Men die in brutal and unexpected ways, booby-trapped, shot from the treeline. The survivors of each attack shake with terror and rage. Their friends die at the hands of an invisible enemy who always seems to be a step ahead...
Other Harvard administration actions have also avoided confrontation and prevented escalation in the ongoing battle between the activists and the University. The strategy has been a good one, however, because the activists enjoy only the vaguest intellectual sympathy from the student body. Each time protesters take new steps to disrupt University life, they push themselves farther away from a politically apathetic student body...
Despite their sophistication and limitless purses, the travelers have only the vaguest idea of what makes the world work outside their bedroom doors. Fascism is on the rise in Italy, but to the myopic Americans, Mussolini seems only to be "looking after the poor, and keeping a strong government together; also, there was talk that he might sign a peace treaty within the year with the Vatican." Irma, heading back to the States, is consoled by expectations: "I am beginning to think 1929 is going to be a great year for us. There is nothing that makes me feel more...
...body." As she broods on her feelings for her children, Anne increasingly wonders whether they are good or harmful, to them and her. "Mother love," Jane Watson replies to one of Anne's queries. "I haven't the vaguest idea what it means...
...essays with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived than he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...