Word: encounterer
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"My recruiter didn't tell me...what the military was for and what I would encounter," Atkinson said. But she she said of enlisting, "As much as I hated it, I had to follow it through."
Does your hand clutch reflexively for the wastebasket when you encounter an invitation for a "21-day free trial period"? Do you feel a numbing sensation when confronted by a hysterical series of !!!!! or uppercased exhortations: THIS IS YOUR CHANCE!!!!! ONLY YOU CAN HELP!!!!! ORDER NOW!!!!! ? Have you begun to...
At its annual meeting in Washington last week the National Conference of Catholic Bishops also joined the Columbus fray, in a pastoral letter on the evangelization of the Americas. The text acknowledged that indigenous Americans' encounter with Europeans was "harsh and painful." Nonetheless, the bishops went on, "the effort to...
In the summer of 1927, Sam Paley, a Philadelphia cigar manufacturer, paid $50 a week to a fledgling local radio station to air The La Palina Hour, a musical-variety show that would advertise his cigars. His son Bill, a company vice president, objected to the decision, which had been...
It might not be so easy. Washington had to twist arms in Tokyo and Bonn the first time around, and would encounter strong resistance if it asked for more. Even some of the smaller allies are not chipping in eagerly. Washington asked South Korea, itself once a victim of aggression...