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I've anchored my share of live coverage over the years, including car chases. At MSNBC, I often prayed the 'delay switch' would actually work as promised. And, I frequently wondered what I would do or say if a violent and graphic incident accidentally aired on my broadcast.
David Shuster / Journalist
Car
Coverage
Delay
Graphic
Share
Accidentally
Anchored
Broadcast
Frequently
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Msnbc
Prayed
Promised
Switch
Wondered
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The only thing I can think of was an incident one day when I did get angry with the substitutes for talking behind the goal while we were practising free-kicks - I told them to pay attention because we might need them during the match. That was something I always insisted on.
Glenn Hoddle / Soccer Player
Pay Attention
Substitutes
Incident
Insisted
Practising
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In 2008, when Russia attacked Georgia, Western countries took it as an isolated incident, but probably this was the start of the push against our underlying international security architecture. And this push then started a landslide which in 2014 resulted in Crimean occupation.
Kersti Kaljulaid /
Architecture
Georgia
Isolated
Occupation
Russia
Attacked
Incident
Landslide
Resulted
Underlying
Western Countries
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An antenna collects radiation from a desired direction incident upon an area, called its collecting area, and focuses it on a receiver. An antenna is normally designed to maximize its response in the direction in which it is pointed and minimize its response in other directions.
Robert Woodrow Wilson /
Antenna
Collecting
Radiation
Receiver
Response
Designed
Directions
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Maximize
Minimize
Normally
Pointed
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It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.
Peter Ackroyd / Biographer
Adventure
Character
Drama
Human Spirit
Intellect
Narrative
Historians
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Portrait
Seize
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When historians consider the significance of the Berlin crises of the mid-20th century, I do not believe that they will record it as an incident in the encirclement of freedom. The true view, in my judgment, will be to see it rather as a major episode in the recession of communism.
Robert Kennedy / Former U.s. Senator
Berlin
Century
Communism
Judgment
Significance
Consider
Crises
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Historians
Incident
Major
Rather
Recession
View
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For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down.
Gore Vidal / Writer
Hundred
One Word
Precise
Relevant
Selection
American Writers
Appear
Fitzgerald
Incident
Occurs
Scott
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When an incident is reported, HR almost always starts from a place of disbelief. They request evidence and ask for proof. But if HR is investigating a sexual harassment case within the company, it is their duty as HR to protect their employees. That is the sentiment that has to shift.
Cheryl Yeoh /
Disbelief
Harassment
Investigating
Proof
Request
Employees
Sentiment
Sexual
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Shift
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The funniest memory that I can recall about my school days has to be one incident that involved unfinished homework for numerous days. I didn't do any of my homework for days and days at a stretch, and kept stalling my teacher that I was extremely unwell and was under heavy medication.
Karan Patel /
Teacher
Heavy
Homework
Involved
Medication
School
School Days
Unfinished
Days
Extremely
Funniest
Incident
Memory
Numerous
Recall
Stretch
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It seems that, every several months, you have to expect there is going to be a terrorist incident or that there could be a terrorist incident somewhere. Right away, you're thinking, 'What are the consequences? Is this the first part of a larger attack? Is it coordinated, or a lone wolf?'
Peter T. King /
Lone
Lone Wolf
Terrorist
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Coordinated
Incident
Right Away
Wolf
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My process for determining which eras I'd write about was to just read history books that gave a really broad overview of Chinese history. And when I came across a historical figure or a historical incident that was especially interesting to me, ideas for characters and stories would surface.
Susan Barker /
Chinese
Eras
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Overview
Surface
Broad
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We used to live in Patiala in the early '90s. I was hardly six or seven, can't remember the exact age. There was a devastating flood: at least four feet water was inside the house. For good 14-15 days, we survived without proper food. Probably this was the incident that triggered our willpower.
Sandeep Singh /
Flood
Survived
Willpower
Devastating
Exact
Hardly
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Proper
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Here is the truth: While at the University of Florida, and now at The Ohio State University, I have always followed proper reporting protocols and procedures when I have learned of an incident involving a student-athlete, coach or member of our staff by elevating the issues to the proper channels.
Urban Meyer / American Football Coach
Elevating
Florida
Involving
Ohio
Procedures
Staff
Channels
Followed
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Reporting
State University
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No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.
Lajos Egri /
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Slowly
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Alcoholism is a disease. People will debate whether it is a disease of the mind, of genetics, or of circumstances. I don't have the answer to that debate, and frankly I don't care because when you try to pinpoint 'why,' it can often lead to blaming another person, an incident in your past, or circumstances.
Eva Marie /
Debate
Genetics
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Frankly
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Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.
H. P. Lovecraft / Author
Awkward
Climax
Inevitable
Suspense
Bearing
Complex
Essential
Fictional
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That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?
Abdolkarim Soroush / Critic
History
Blocked
Contemporary
Ignored
Iran
Journalism
Millions
President
Activities
Voted
Bitterest
Cultural
Incident
Millions Of People
Policies
Risky
Wishes
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I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment. We go from incident to incident, and we have spikes in which race becomes something that we talk about, as opposed to talking about race in those less contentious times when I think we might make more progress.
Eric Holder / United States Attorney General
Detriment
Incident
Racial
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A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes the stimulus can be an idea, which will rapidly clothe itself in character and incident. 'Foreign Bodies' came about through the contemplation of the contrast between post-second world war America and Europe.
Cynthia Ozick / Writer
Contemplation
Location
Mood
Stimulus
Bodies
Incident
Rapidly
World War
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I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of the people involved there, and I try to run up all the accounts side by side to see where the contradictions are, and to look where things have gone missing.
Hilary Mantel / Writer
Accounts
Available
Biographies
Details
Missing
Time Great Look
Background
Contradictions
Finding
Great Deal
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What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.
Jeffrey Kluger / Writer
Bystanders
Cab
Curb
Gun
Injury
Randomness
Rational
Taxi
Taxi Cabs
Tragedy
Cause
Possible
Effect
Hits
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Least
Pedestrian
Reward
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You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.
Abraham Lincoln / 16Th U.s. President
Credit
Honest
Thoughtful
Life Time Work
Dollar
Earned
Life Work Time
Incident
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There was an incident in Argentina when I was making a film called 'The Warrior and the Sorceress.' There were, like, 40, 50 sword fighters and martial artists on the set, and one of the sword fighters challenged me. I said, 'Look, you don't want to fight me. Nobody wants to fight me. You gotta be crazy to want to fight me.'
David Carradine / Actor
Argentina
Warrior
Challenged
Fighters
Fight Look Me
Gotta
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Sword
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Rattigan's world demanded unwavering trust in principles, loyalty, and virtue. At the time of this play - Rattigan was writing this play in 1947 about an incident that took place in 1914 - should a boy say he didn't do something, his father would believe him; a British father would take the defense of his son's honor to his grave.
Roger Rees /
Loyalty
Defense
Honor
Principles
Unwavering
Virtue
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Grave
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There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, 'Will you all just shut up!' And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, 'What are you doing?!' I was like, 'You better get up here! I don't play the fighting games.'
Kevin Hart / Actor
Girl
Movie
Fighting
Games
Mad
Moved
Movie Theater
Shut Up
Talking
Theater
Three
Behind
Front
Guys
Incident
Looked
Rows
Shut
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My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job. There are so many decisions that law enforcement officers have to make, and the incident or situation changes so much from moment to moment and day to day. I have a lot of respect for officers and what they go through.
Bob Odenkirk / Actor
Enforcement
Law Enforcement
Officers
Godfather
Incident
Policeman
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'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.
Andrew Gross / Author
Car
Blind
Book
Hero
Jail
Last Year
Thrown
Violation
Book Tour
Easily
Curve
Except
Incident
Minor
Pulled
Tour
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There really hasn't been a name that is in the media on a daily basis, and that's what skating in the '90s was. Everyone knew, after the Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan incident - Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, Kristi Yamaguchi, Michelle Kwan - everyone knew these names. They were household names because they were winning; they were on TV.
Tara Lipinski / Figure Skater
Household
Nancy
Skating
Daily Basis
Incident
Michelle
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You'd think they could spit out shows better than 'Champs' and 'High Incident' with the pool of talent involved, unless they're just throwing money at people to create shows and they're not really behind them. I mean, the best thing they can do is 'Champs,' a half-hour comedy about men being stupid? People can just look around and see that.
Adrian Pasdar / Actor
Pool
Spit
Stupid People
Throwing
Incident
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'Ice Cold' is the eighth in my 'Rizzoli and Isles' thriller series. It was inspired by a true occurrence in the 1960s, now known as the 'Dugway Incident,' in which 6,000 sheep mysteriously died overnight in a remote area of Utah. I thought, 'What if it happened instead to people? What if the inhabitants of an entire village vanished overnight?'
Tess Gerritsen / Md
Cold
Died
Ice
Series
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Village
What If
Area
Eighth
Entire
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Inhabitants
Occurrence
Overnight
Remote
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