Word: reconstruct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is no atmosphere of tension and fear. The idea is order, to build something." That is how Stroessner sees himself-as Paraguay's builder. His term expires in 1968, and constitutionally he is barred from running again. But in Stroessner's Paraguay, the builder can always reconstruct a constitution...
Trying to reconstruct the situation afterwards, Bassett said he should have tried a pass play instead of the Poe run. At the time, he had thought Poe might go all the way, and that there was time for two plays. In fact, immmediately after the ball was placed Bassett tried to get a snap and throw it, but the period ended a second too soon...
...casual reader, the story may sound like a far-out effort at science fiction. But the moon tale told by Swedish Physicist Hannes Alfven amounts to much more than an imaginative voyage into the distant past; it is an ingenious effort to reconstruct a cosmic catastrophe that changed the composition of man's earth and set a new course for the moon more than 2 billion years...
When Goodman talks about one of his drawings or paintings, he resembles a man trying to reconstruct a half-forgotten dream. Just as a dream is triggered by some incident of the day, a Goodman painting may stem from the most humdrum of sights, which he transforms into an image that seems to have endless ramifications and is always in part a mystery. Once Goodman noticed two people sunning themselves on the deck of a ship; these became two eerie figures in ghostly robes lying in a landscape that appears to have no beginning and no end, and what...
...specific situation, rather than skimming over great hunks of history at a time. As M.I.T. Historian Elting Morison, editor of Theodore Roosevelt's letters and a key E.S.I. scholar, put it: "It may be that a student can learn more about American Government by studying original materials to reconstruct a single case-say, the events surrounding the building of the battleship Kentucky in 1900-than by reading all the civics books in print...