Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want you to know that I am, of course, very disturbed and worried about the events that have taken place during this controversy." Epps said. "I believe that institutions, such as Harvard, should do all they can to aid the black community...
...pretend to know much about Harvard any more," he added, saying that he will come to his first few Corporation meetings "having had no experience in some of the matters...
...cocktail party of total recall, Lou Gehrig rubs elbows with Harry Hopkins, and Hitler bumps nastily into John Dillinger. Jean Harlow, meet Eleanor Roosevelt. Jim Farley, do you know Ina Ray Hutton? Father Coughlin, as I live and breathe...
...ancients," writes William Service, "attributed to the owl great wisdom. I, more careful, attribute to him the keenest appetite to find things out." The same might be said of Service himself. His Owl is less the result of wisdom than of a keen if bemused curiosity. No man can know all about a bird, especially a screech owl who possesses, as the book jacket puts it, the proportions of a beer can and the personality of a bank president. But a year of open-minded daily contact with such a creature is bound to lead to something, and in this...
...postures too much; he walks about hobbling like an old man with hands clasped behind back." But as a fair observer, Service, a writer and amateur naturalist, points out that human logic isn't much help in understanding a screech owl. For one thing, how do you know what the bird is thinking when, say, he shreds a piece of spinach into 55 fragments before leaving it? Or why he reacts with evident horror to the sight of an upright moving stick? Or why, though something of a gourmet, Owl once consumed a lucky rabbit's foot down...