Word: remarkedly
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...also take this opportunity to correct one remark attributed to me by Mr. Wall in the article. I did not state that my "...advisees suffer an almost paranoid fear that their financial aid checks won't come through..." I did say that many Harvard-Radcliffe students might not appreciate keenly the experience of a low income or working class student awaiting the arrival of her/his financial aid check. Robert Read
...America, which broadcasts English- and Chinese-language programming into China. The New China News Agency singled out one VOA report that quoted "independent-minded" U.S. Journalist I.F. Stone as saying that the Chinese demonstrations were a "comfort to dissidents elsewhere." VOA officials defended their decision to broadcast the remark on the grounds that support for the protesters from Stone, a longtime sympathizer with the Peking regime, was news. For all their cautious restraint so far, China's rulers last week seemed to be casting an increasingly disapproving eye on the actions of their unruly children...
...remark was prompted by the death of a twelve-year-old Palestinian boy named Ramadan Zeitun, who was shot last week during disturbances at the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank town of Nablus. At first it was assumed that the boy had died after Israeli soldiers fired into a crowd of rioters. Later it appeared that he may have been shot by a carful of local Israeli settlers. Either way, his death symbolizes the confusion and chaos that beset the West Bank as it undergoes the worst round of violence there since the spring...
...Answer: to enrich the mind, astound friends and amuse dinner-table partners. The latter objective receives its own 19-entry chapter, in which Novelist Virginia Faulkner's advice is cited: "I ask the gentleman on my right, 'Are you a bed-wetter?', and when we have exhausted that, I remark to the gentleman on my left, 'You know, I spit blood this morning.' " Hodgepodge has an erudite word for just about every purpose and contingency, including, in a section on critics, Ambrose Bierce's review of another volume: "The covers of this book are too far apart." The covers...
...skylight in the captain's studio and moves in with them, apparently for good. The next morning, seeing the animal in a bowl that forms part of a still life her husband has arranged, the wife says, "If you could paint that -- that would be a picture." The remark is not intended in entire innocence; it opens what turns out to be a protracted and vicious domestic...