Word: subjecting
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...nation's lost faith in the individual to the '60s paternalism that he thinks caused it all--the attitude, he says, that "we can't trust poor parents to make a decision for their children." His hands reach out as he speaks. His eyes are animated, especially when the subject is education or the need to treat immigrants with respect. "This sounds like rote," he told TIME after unspooling a riff on how to improve schooling for the underclass. "It's not! It's what I believe! It's not somebody writing a speech for me. It's my passion...
...owner of a chain of supercenters in Michigan would hardly seem a match for Henry Kissinger in a debate over the Vietnam War, but at the 1995 Gerald R. Ford Foundation board meeting, the former Secretary of State indeed lost a heated argument on the subject to one Fred Meijer of Grand Rapids. At issue was an 18-step metal ladder, utterly unremarkable except that in April 1975 thousands of desperate South Vietnamese, fleeing capture by the invading North Vietnamese for freedom in the U.S., had clambered up its sturdy steps onto the roof of the U.S. embassy in Saigon...
...recalls one experience many years ago when she had the "mind-boggling" summer task of cataloging all the scientific articles they had received by subject...
...Subject: Letter from a prospective Harvard student
...door were the words "gluttony" and "wrath." He was intrigued, but a quick search revealed no clues. Once again, he laid the matter to rest. Guberman had a chance encounter with a couple of former Canaday F residents and asked them about the sins. They knew nothing of the subject. Enter Clint T. Kenley '03, a blockmate of Guberman. Kenley, a Montanan and hunter, overheard the conversation and was enticed by the mystery. After a tour of the discovered sins, Kenley "felt a strong connection with the perpetrator." Standing in the entryway, contemplating his freshly-acquired knowledge of the sins...