Word: profession
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iceman's appeal is universal. Austrians have fondly nicknamed him "Oetzi" (after the Oetztaler Alps). Thousands of people worldwide have written to express their interest or profess kinship. Some claim to have communicated with him, while several women, unaware of the Iceman's castration, have volunteered to be impregnated with his sperm. In South Tyrol, a small tourist industry, replete with T shirts, pamphlets and escorted hikes to the recovery site, is already flourishing. And proud provincial officials are planning to build a museum around the Iceman and display him in some sort of refrigerated showcase...
Clinton strategists profess to be sanguine. "The Perot candidacy is a missile in directed flight against Bush," says George Shipley, a Democratic consultant in Texas. "That's his whole game." Bush's advisers do worry about losing Texas. But they argue, perhaps wishfully, that Perot could diminish Clinton's overpowering lead in California to the point where Bush would be competitive there. If the numbers in the nation's largest state begin to change, Bush would divert money and time to the West Coast. That would force Clinton to do the same in the final weeks. Clinton's pollster, Stan...
...like "artistic integrity." Gomez is proud of the neighborhoods in which he grew up--in and around Somerville. But while he is interested in portraying life in down-and-out (mostly white) neighborhoods like the Brooklyn area in which "laws of Gravity" takes place, in no way does he profess to be a visionary or to be interested in art with a capital...
...should we care? This is a country in which a sixth of all married adults admit to having had affairs, in which seduction trails only murder as the most popular form of TV entertainment, in which condoms are handed out in the high schools. Yet, as voters, we profess shock that our candidates should behave...
...explain. In the best of all possible worlds, we would all both profess virtue and practice it. But in a fallen world, we will have our vices. And it must be said that the modern vices of overindulgence (dissipation and profligacy) compare favorably with those of a century ago, which carried more than a tinge of cruelty. We no longer, for example, countenance cockfighting, child labor or the hanging of petty thieves...