Word: profession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harris must also actually break Brown's record and then agree to race him in a 40-yd. match race. If Brown loses, he vows to give up his comeback attempt. The whole thing may never happen, but it sure beats the civilized insincerity of those athletes who profess to be delighted when their records fall...
...records end in 1965, without a trace of its disposition. Alumni from that era profess ignorance of its demise...
...Sandinistas profess little concern about the fact that an estimated 77,000 Nicaraguans have fled the country in the past four years. "We made no promises to the bourgeoisie," says Junta Member SergioRamirez Mercado. "We made no promises to the U.S. We made our promises to the poor." Indeed, the Sandinistas repeatedly assert that continued U.S. hostility, particularly through support of the contras, guarantees a continued clampdown in Nicaragua. Warns Ortega: "The Reagan Administration can force us to take steps we do not want to take." Still unanswered is the question of what course Ortega and his colleagues would follow...
...unspeakable crimes are being yanked out of the shadows What might be called public violence is as American as assassinations, mob wars and mass murders, the stuff of screaming headlines and periodic national soul searching. What might be called private violence, what people who know each other, even profess to love each other, do to each other, is a nightmarish realm only beginning to be forthrightly explored. Its particular horror stems from its viola tions of the trust upon which all intimate human relations depend: it is cruelty exercised on those nearest, most vulnerable, least able or inclined to defend...
...care for and look out for the place. Before then, the inmates had been ferried to the island for the burying, then ferried back to prison at night. Now there is a work camp at Potter's Field, and 48 prisoners live there round-the-clock. The prisoners profess a fondness for the field...