Word: yearnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theme "I want to be known as the President that rebuilt America." Harkin thinks that as the only red-blooded liberal, he can eke out a plurality among traditional Democrats while his sound-alike rivals divide the rest. But this year even some labor chiefs and left-leaning activists yearn for a winner who can reach well beyond the New Deal heritage. So far, Harkin isn't even trying...
...enough to make Sullivan yearn for last year's point guard, academic casualty Tarik Campbell...
...have been a biblical masterpiece of wonder. Even commonplace achievements of technology, like telephones, fax machines, television, communications satellites and computers, suffuse the earth with a sort of preternatural glow. The people of the industrialized world have become consumers of secularized miracles -- and the people of the Third World yearn for such products with a kind of religious ardor. Show a developing Polaroid picture to a man in a remote forest of Africa or South America. The developing image (his own, perhaps) seems to him more astonishing and supernatural than the Shroud of Turin...
THOSE WHO ARGUE for ROTC also say that without ROTC students, Harvard would lose a niche of diversity filled by those who yearn to combine being a student "with the complementary physical and mental challenges of the military," as the council subcommittee report says...
...sleeve. They bring a touch of elegance to the male uniform of tuxedo or business suit. This richly illustrated book, which features cuff links ranging from the sporty -- fishing flies under crystal -- to the fanciful -- a pair of gold nuts and bolts -- will make every man yearn for French cuffs...