Word: devoid
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Fleming's first two years at Michigan have been virtually devoid of major disturbances, due partly to his talent as a peacemaker and mediator. He settled a student strike in the fall of 1969 by calling in police-though he was reluctant to do so-but he vehemently refused to allow the National Guard on campus...
...reason is its high degree of specialization. Traditional capitals?London, Paris, Rome, Vienna?are centers of culture and commerce as well as government?filled with sensuous temptations and enticements to dalliance. The Washington ambience, by contrast, is a political pressure cooker?almost devoid of the soft lights and shadowed corners where small intimacies can flower into intimacy. It is slightly nerve-racking to be close to a man whose electronic "beeper" may go off any second to warn him that he is wanted at the White House; and those black overstuffed sofas in the offices on the Hill...
...against water. It is as if Rossellini scoured history to find an aesthetic most antithetical to his own, and once he had found it he let it run amuck. For this reason, Louis differs from almost every other hero of rise and/or fall narratives in that he is totally devoid of development. The same logic that complains his refusal of Mazarin's legacy in reel one, explains his disdain for forks in reel three. Money, forks, meats, music, for Louis it is a question of quantity and not quality. Louis remains stationary, while reality, i.e., appearances, kaleidoscope about...
...have indicated repeatedly to the SDS, on the other hand, that substantive documents sent to us by our advisers overseas, many of which are prepared by them, are deposited in our library.... As we wrote in the memorandum, "these materials range from short memoranda containing recommendations but devoid of substantive supporting analysis all the way to lengthy research papers which are highly technical in nature and lack any recommendations." The memorandum also stated that "All members of the Harvard community are free to see these materials whether catalogued or uncatalogued...
Crone has done extremely well at times, but always in situations devoid of pressure. He piled up yards and points against Northeastern and Rutgers, but was off-target when he could not afford to be against Columbia...