Word: vein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These contentions exasperate Mondale. Says he: "Look, Hart isn't 26, he's 47. I'm not 86, I'm 56." But Hart does seem to be tapping a deep vein of longing for a new accent in leadership, particularly among a group known as Yuppies, for young urban professionals. These are well-educated people in their 20s and 30s who turn out to vote in large numbers and make dedicated, articulate campaign workers...
...warden's friend' because he always votes against the poor prisoner who wants to get out," he told an audience of students, faculty and the public. Another is " 'the pornographer's friend' because he's a First Amendment absolutist." In a more serious vein, Blackmun defended the controversial 1973 decision he wrote upholding the right to abortion. Said he: "Whether it stands forever or not, it at least cut a vast swath on the way toward independence for women...
...fatal shot hit the archduke in the jugular vein, the other struck the archduchess in the abdomen. From the archduke's throat a thin stream of blood spurted onto the face of an aide. "For God's sake, what has happened to you?" the archduchess cried out to her stricken husband. "Then she sank down from her seat," the aide recalled. "His Royal Highness said, 'Soferl, Soferl! Don't die. Live for my children.' " The aide grasped the slumping archduke by the collar and asked if he were in great pain. The dying archduke said...
...alternative disturbs me. In what vein would a member of the Harvard community profane my religious freedom? The Christmas season promotes as much of the sentiments of tolerance, compassion, and benevolence as it does worship for a certain people's saviour. Every occasion is improper for anti-Semitic gestures, but none could be more irreverent. Historically, Christmas has proved an uncomfortable season, both emotionally and physically, when tides of ill will against Jews climaxed in central and western Europe. Now, happily, participants in a secular world, we share the universal message of the Christian holy day. My intruder may even...
...immense talent but also immense gregariousness; he does not try to change our impressions of anything, but simply and sociably tells us some stories. Memories are recounted in the roughly chronological order in which they occur to him and seem somewhat hastily connected by such phrases as "In this vein, I have one last memory to expiate..." This structure does have its limits. Background information inaccessible to memory--for example, genealogical history-- receives short shrift...