Word: wising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aesthetically and content-wise, it looks really promising," Davis said. "There's a lot of quality writing to be tapped into...
...well-made trench coat. The reader can count on several things from these lengthy dissections of the British intelligentsia, and the new installment, her 24th, is no exception. One can be sure, for instance, that demon lust and his faithful servant, self-deception, will make fools of the witty, wise and powerful. There will probably be a maddeningly masochistic woman and a childish, manipulative man. A young person, usually a girl, will act as an unsparing force of nature...
According to Berg, this is the deepest that the Spikers have ever been talent-wise. This year, there are 12 to 13 strong players on the team compared to the past, when the squad only had seven or eight strong players. The depth of Harvard's bench was evident Saturday. Everyone who came off the bench played well and contributed to the team's efforts, Berg said...
...neither prove God nor disprove him, whether he be Einstein's Old One, the architect of the cosmos, or Michelangelo's stern anthropomorphic censor of our morals. Many of us, including clerics of all faiths, think it unlikely that an all-wise creator would choose for himself the male form of a primate so close genetically to a chimpanzee that some taxonomists would include the pair in the same genus...
...Bush's initiatives have come across as wise. The President seemed to be toadying to the communist Chinese rulers who massacred pro-democracy demonstrators last June. He made a mockery of his sanctions against Beijing -- which called for, among other things, a ban on high-level political exchanges -- by twice sending Scowcroft and Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger to the Chinese capital; their first visit, in July, came to light only last week. Beijing has yet to reciprocate with any significant concession, and last week expressed "utmost shock and strong condemnation" of the Panama invasion. But the U.S. moves...