Word: lifelong
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...consolation, why wouldn't I have repeated that solace in ensuing years of even worse trouble? In any case, to the surprise of my doctors, I've survived without apparent return of the cancer, and my life is more rewarding and productive than before that washing in Galilee. My lifelong sense that Jesus of Nazareth stood in a unique and redeeming relation to the Creator of this universe at least has intensified, though I have felt no right to claim intimacy with him. As for so many others, he has never seemed less than mysterious, and my experience...
...close. Gone, until next year, are the packs of sophomore guys running around in suits, unable to tell you exactly where they're going. Gone are the mysteriously fancy envelopes, delivered at all suspicious hours of the night. As a new class of male undergraduates begin their lifelong relationships with these oft-discussed institutions, it seems like an appropriate moment for a few words of (inevitably unwanted) advice. Final club members, I'm talking...
...CHILL Bill Clinton plans to fulfill a lifelong dream by traveling to Antarctica this year, thus becoming the first President to visit the chilly continent. When we heard this, we called comedians for a Clinton-in-Antarctica joke...
...lifelong journalist, Grunwald--once editor-in-chief of Time Inc.--responded to the challenge with brisk attentiveness as much as apprehension. He read up on eye incisions that would make weaker men flinch, learned that James Thurber, after becoming blind, composed whole pages of prose in his head, and discovered that in ancient Egypt, medication for such problems might consist of urine, saliva, honey, the whites of eggs and "the milk of a woman who had borne only boys." Yet all the knowledge in the world could not erase the fact that the words and the paintings that had always...
Ever since then, lifelong Cambridge resident Michael, 40, has been involved in city politics in one way or another...