Word: utterings
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...have had only one conversation with Barnicle--in front of two witnesses, who both remember it for its coolness and brevity. It did not include any discussion of "Asian women." I would never utter--or think--the kind of racist, sexist perverted slur Barnicle attributed to me. Barnicle made up the entire story, as he well knows, in order to demonstrate his point that it is easy to take a cheap shot at a public figure...
Even a nation accustomed for some time to meager supplies and long lines has been stunned by the utter disappearance of milk, meat, produce and even bread. Some stores have taken to closing early in the day for lack of anything to sell. To halt worsening shortages, Leningrad took the dramatic step of introducing rationing of key staples last week. Moscow is also debating emergency measures. The Supreme Soviet has given Gorbachev until the end of this week to come up with a plan to halt shortages in major industrial areas. Addressing a meeting of the Moscow City Communist Party...
...believe in the Moping Dog doctrine. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about the inconsistencies of human behavior: "It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum, and here they will break out in their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns and they mope and wallow like dogs...
While the rest of the sporting world was distracted with sideshows -- the World Series, the Douglas-Holyfield fight -- the main event was being played out in utter silence at the Hudson Theater on Broadway, where the two best players in the world, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, were fighting it out for the championship of chess. (After 12 games, the match is tied...
...complete and utter hell," Benjamin said. "It was a swamp, just total marshlands. "It's too bad the course was so bad, because the race would have been a lot faster. The winner probably would have been under 30 minutes without the rain...