People yearned to discuss it, they just needed a trigger.
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Unlike more telegenic colleagues, he never yearned to be president.
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I yearned to go back in time and do more.
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At 12, I yearned to be any kind of normal.
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As word spread, more people yearned to proselytise the Bikram method.
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But Mr. Shturman's children yearned to live in the United States.
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Despite everything, he yearned to feel the warmth of Thorpe's approval.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Justin Thomas yearned to win a major, any major.
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But he also yearned to be free if you get my point.
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Meagan Guy, 17, once yearned to simply attend a week at camp.
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He yearned to be in that spotlight, competing for a national championship.
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" Democrats yearned to have Mueller scream "Collusion!" like Marlon Brando once screamed "Stella!
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As a professional, Freeland yearned to be a firefighter running into the blaze.
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After having major surgery recently, I yearned to slip back into the sea.
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So it was that I yearned to dine on ptarmigan shit without a camouflage.
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I yearned to know what it felt like to like the skin you're in.
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Florence yearned to be an opera singer, but she exaggerated her talent and training.
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He yearned to see the world, and asked to be stationed aboard a boat.
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With her mother now living in a nursing home, Yearwood yearned to do something more.
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Others yearned to go back, but simply could not swing the cost of child care.
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Baseball was his path to fame and greatness, but he yearned to be a rock star.
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Finally, I was watching the reactions I'd yearned to see when I was 10 years old.
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Knoll turned to her books to create the examples she yearned to encounter in real life.
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Although he grew up with loving and supportive parents, Watts yearned to connect with his past.
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And, dear reader, ever since that day I have yearned to be like Hunter S Thompson.
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After two years of biding his time and learning the game, he yearned to do more.
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Friendly but shy, he yearned to find a meaningful relationship but struggled to connect with women.
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As a child, she yearned to work outdoors on the farm, but her father forbade it.
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The designer described the experience as "poetic and formative," yet he yearned to create something new.
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Santopadre steered him toward his schoolwork, his family and his friends when he yearned to compete.
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I had wanted out of school and, after a landlocked upbringing, yearned to see an ocean.
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I yearned to know the stories behind them but their potential relevance and messages fall silent.
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I resented this stereotype of the hypermasculine black brute, but I also yearned to evoke its fury.
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But the second those food rules became commandments in my mind, I, a sinner, yearned to stray.
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She was ethereally thin, a wisp, the size I've yearned to be my entire life to be.
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Like an ill-fitting polyester suit, this identity itched, and I yearned to wear something more comfortable.
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My dad came of age during the birth of the black power movement, and yearned to be different.
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At some point, many a twentysomething yearned to be part of a clique like the one in Friends.
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They yearned to stay young and to live forever, with loved ones nearby and snack food piled high.
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Elisabeth, a regional planner, yearned to take up gardening and cooking — and live in a sunny, rustic setting.
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As a little girl, Ms. Talton knew she wanted to help people, and yearned to be a psychiatrist.
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" But he yearned to coach: "I missed teaching, being around young people, recruiting, getting a result every Saturday.
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Though she'd long yearned to work on spaceflight, she feared there would be little demand for her arcane expertise.
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I have yearned to live in Chicago since I first visited the Mercantile Exchange located right on Wacker Drive.
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She yearned to embrace her sister, but soon she would have her own passport, and visit her in Mexico.
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There was one thing that he yearned to do: Mullen had never been abroad, or even on an airplane.
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Wire-service reporting was by nature a mechanical exercise, however, and Richard yearned to write longer, more narrative pieces.
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Where Jay Gatsby was looking to earn Daisy Buchanan's affections, Low yearned to be close to celebrities like Paris Hilton.
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If you've yearned to wear your wink face on your sleeves, or your streaks on your head — you're in luck.
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Explorers dreaming of Africa's El Dorado, with prizes and wealth for doing so waiting back home, yearned to remedy this.
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While royalty yearned to recreate an impossible past, the makers of cramped Place Dauphine worked to build a possible future.
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President Obama yearned to make justice reform part of his legacy and lobbied for it in public and in private.
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Since the dawn of recorded history, man has yearned to discover just how far he can throw a washing machine.
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Yet I yearned to have a sounding board that didn't involve my family, who worried too much about me already.
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She could not shake the image of herself as a statistic — a high school dropout — and yearned to escape it.
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A native of Trinidad, she was tired of New York winters and yearned to understand more about her ancestral foods.
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While he yearned to become a member of the Special Forces, he dropped out after two days, disheartened by the training.
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My Teenage Obsession With 'How Things Work' Growing up with a schizophrenic mother, I yearned to make sense of the world.
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Inspired by a commuter tinkering with his calculator on the train, game designer Yokoi yearned to create a handheld gaming device.
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But he yearned to return to Brazil and work on ameliorating the massive health disparities that he saw in his youth.
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But a couple of years ago, it became clear to both of them that De Cotiis yearned to create a home.
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I yearned to be next to my sister, our shoulders touching and heads inclining toward each other in our dark closet.
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The Twilight Zone came about after Serling was tired of fighting with censors over the socially conscious stories he yearned to tell.
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She yearned to fly, but they wouldn't let her try for a pilot's licence—a weak reflex in an ankle, they said.
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As rulers of a literal gangster-state, three generations of the Kim dynasty have yearned to be treated as equals by America.
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Yet as a Japanese-American, he had also yearned to be treated equally and felt that everyone should be treated with dignity.
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A peace-loving China yearned to work with foreign navies to secure international sea-lanes and safeguard the ocean's riches, Mr Xi declared.
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The youngest brother, Jacques, who had yearned to become a Catholic priest, travelled to India and the Persian Gulf, expanding the firm's reach.
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We walked on, thinking about the country our parents had chosen for us, the sunny land that we had yearned to call home.
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After a long day on the barricades, it seems that even the political activists yearned to get inducted into the Summer of Love.
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My study of early utopias and dystopias, which I had of course yearned to write but which I had not felt able to do.
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I was a follower, always, not a leader; but I secretly yearned to be the kind of kid who would be chosen as chief.
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Whenever possible, we traveled back to my mother's house in Genthod, near Geneva, but I yearned to share more with Sébastien as he grew.
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In an alleged transcript of a phone conversation between the adulterous couple, the public learned that the Prince yearned to be his ladylove's tampon.
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The anecdote gives a poignant glimpse of Bach's personality: he yearned to join the international élite, but the trappings of success were denied him.
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Other countries have pushed ahead with national drone networks, and professional operators in the US have long yearned to follow them up, up, and away.
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I resented when family members pointed out that I talked like her or had thick thighs like her, because I yearned to become a man.
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The defendants, all young Somali-Americans from Minneapolis, once yearned to fight in Syria, and they supported one another in their efforts to travel there.
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Ms. Seligsohn yearned to be so fully American that she recalled buying Halo shampoo to turn her hair blond, as promised by the popular commercials.
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The former national swimmer still yearned to incorporate her passion for the water into a profession, but struggled to find the means to do so.
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But in my heart, I yearned to see Mercury rip through "Fat Bottomed Girls" in that famous bright green uni-thong we all know and love.
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With radio listeners now viewing me as an intellectual, back on TV I've got the space to be that thing I've always yearned to be: Sexy.
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Lee had rehired Kirby to work on simpleminded monster stories for what was now called Atlas Comics, but Kirby yearned to create epic space-god cosmologies.
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As a goodwill ambassador for UNHCR -- the UN refugee agency -- I have met many young refugees who yearned to get an education, just as I did.
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She had yearned to own a house with a priest hole—or an attic, at least, with a trunk full of yellowed letters and long dresses.
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Knowing it could be like this, I yearned to live my life in the kitchen differently, to stop quaking in my apron and cook not afraid.
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He said he yearned to follow the directions of Pope Paul VI, who had asked the members of the United Nations to lay down their arms.
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I kept making trade-offs with myself about the men whose photos and short bios scrolled by, and I yearned to be flexible and nonjudgmental. Sure.
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I told her what I found interesting about Olga, the bearded lady, was that she yearned to be a stenographer and kept geraniums on her windowsill.
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Obama said he and the artist who painted him, Kehinde Wiley, were both raised by single mothers and yearned to learn more about their absent fathers.
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My love of comic books and my weird childhood obsession with Greek mythology depicted heroes who performed terrific feats, and I yearned to do something incredible, too.
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Having very little in common with her, save the close approximation of dressing quarters, a bit of me yearned to be as cool and composed as Sade.
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Thomas's outspoken nature, despite his being the new guy, is all anyone heard, no matter how many times he also said he yearned to make this work.
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In the rural area, Ms. Anumula met child laborers who had dropped out of school, yet yearned to be able to read the hefty novels she carried.
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While Marilyn Monroe gained popularity as a sought-after pinup before she became a movie star, the blonde bombshell yearned to be recognized for more than her appearance.
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But in the documentary, Junior admitted he didn't want to suffer from a similar fate and instead, yearned to be a hands-on parent to his own children.
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And for Sakamoto, announcing the title yesterday provided a profound sense of relief — it's both a game fans were clamoring for and a game he yearned to make.
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On a particularly quiet day in March (they all seemed quiet that spring), a Mets official mentioned that the team yearned to grab Mike Piazza from the Dodgers.
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The piece the Latvian violinist Baiba Skride, 34, yearned to play as a student was Bartok's Violin Concerto No. 2, but her teachers deemed it too emotionally taxing.
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Although the $30,000 paycheck (plus expenses) would benefit her family, she also yearned to share the joy she knew by helping a woman who struggled to give birth.
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He had yearned to be a jet mechanic in the Marines, and eventually an F.B.I. agent, saving money and helping his close-knit family to a better life.
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However, as a child growing up in Milan, The Derby was the race he yearned to win, spurned on by his father Gianfranco, himself a prolific jockey in Italy.
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There was a time when I yearned to live in Los Angeles — obviously a sign I was deeply unwell — and before that, a list of smaller cities I'd idealized.
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From high school age onward (I'm in my late twenties), I've failed to establish or maintain the kind of "bestie" relationship I've yearned to find since my middle school days.
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Nancy, who told close friends she believed in an afterlife and yearned to be reunited with her husband, will be buried right beside the former president on the library's grounds.
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And despite the symptoms and discomfort she was experiencing, Brittany focused on spending her time with the family and friends she loved, and traveling to destinations she yearned to see.
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Francis had said he yearned to visit the Basilica of Guadalupe, which attracts millions of pilgrims from all over Latin America, and to reflect silently in front of her image.
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LONDON — If you've ever secretly yearned to sip butterbeer in the Hog's Head Inn or rest your legs alongside some hobbits in the Prancing Pony, you're almost certainly not alone.
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While Rassim helped start the careers of artists like Fahrelnissa Zeid, who became known for her large-scale abstract paintings, she still yearned to be recognized for her own artwork.
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It was no secret in the West Wing that McGahn yearned to depart later this year, but the tweet raised eyebrows about whether McGahn leaped or was pushed (The Washington Post).
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"It was the speech we and millions of Cubans yearned to hear," José Daniel Ferrer, the leader of Cuba's largest dissident group, the Patriotic Union of Cuba, said in an email.
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Cher and Dionne Davenport were the chic California teenagers that I yearned to dress like and whose shopping habits I aspired to live out: Calvin Klein, Contempo Casual, Fred Segal, Boulmiche.
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He said the 2013 decision skewering Mr. Sherman put him in an "impossible position," since Mr. Sherman wanted his client to avoid prison, but also yearned to defend his own reputation.
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I yearned to be able to do the same around my family and eventually decided that it was time to stop living a lie and tell my dad I was transgender.
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Diana sailed down the aisle, her strawberry-blonde waves a nimbus around her head, her intense blue eyes resting on me in a friendly way, though I yearned to be invisible.
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"Hello Mary Lou" by Ricky Nelson (21961) Son of television super-parents Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, young Ricky yearned to be taken more seriously than his teen idol good looks often allowed.
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ShayKhatiri yearned to study political science, but he realized that would never be possible in his native Iran, where he says the subject tends to be limited to how Islam defines politics.
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She yearned to be identical to her ideas, to display the punishing consistency of Weil, but her ideas jostled and sparked, exploding her sense of what she was, or wanted to be.
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For years, there has been a missing link between regional farmers struggling to sell their fresh produce and customers in the metropolitan area who yearned to buy it — at an affordable price.
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He yearned to be compared to Ronald Reagan, a former TV star who overcame a reputation for bellicosity and racial dog whistles to become the most beloved Republican president of modern times.
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While they were born in Samana, and in many ways feel Dominican, they acknowledge their roots in African-American history and have yearned to connect with distant relatives in the United States.
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He would of loved that, but at the same time, he would have yearned to be in a small town so he could drag some girl out of a bar so to speak.
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Among the eclipse chasers this time were astronomer Maria Mitchell, who wanted to show the world that women could be scientists; and a young Thomas Edison, who yearned to prove his scientific worth.
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Trump bombed big league, to use his favorite phrase, and he did so on his home turf, surrounded by the members of the New York elite he's always yearned to be part of.
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The history of American immigration is not only a story of settlers, but of sojourners, those who yearned to return home but could not, those who never felt like they belonged at all.
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This spring, in a scruffy Egyptian fishing village at the mouth of the Nile, I met restless teenagers who, drawn by images of Western glamour on Facebook, yearned to board the smugglers' boats.
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But ever since the Boston Marathon bombing that put a knife in my city's heart, I've yearned to be part of more community moments, more comings-together that let us celebrate being human.
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I was honored to serve alongside all of them, and humbled by their sense of duty, by their willingness to risk life and limb for a country they yearned to call their own.
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It was calling brightly out across 220 million miles of space, a gulf humans have yearned to cross for as long as they have known that the lights in the sky are places.
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Pouille, who had yearned to take a break from the tour but decided to finish the season so he could play in the Davis Cup final, was on his own for eight days.
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I was able to hold it together at this dose, but I yearned to be outside in the sun or doing literally anything else than discussing how to increase efficiency in a call center.
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There were moments when I yearned to help the person on the other end by offering advice, and others when the confessors beckoned back, wishing they could hear breathing or other signs of life.
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It was a world away from the Jenny who desperately yearned to copy the style of Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), the person whose throne Jenny coveted for the entirety of the show's freshman season.
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When 11-year-old Marley Dias got tired of reading books about "dogs and white boys" and yearned to read stories about awesome Black girls like herself, she decided to do something about it.
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This was the pitcher the Mets yearned to see, seven innings of angry fastballs and wicked off-speed stuff in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox at Citi Field on Monday.
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" It was in the absence of minorities from pop lore, she goes on, "that seeds were planted in the imaginations of countless black kids who yearned to see themselves in warp-speed spaceship too.
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It was music for a generation of men who wanted to climb the corporate ladder and not get led astray by a deceitful woman, but who also yearned to find home in an available body.
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He yearned to be where he didn't have to care about what others thought about him: Sweaty clubs featuring longhaired metalcore musicians with tattoos, piercings and no-nonsense glares proved to be just the ticket.
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In 2016, Donald Trump wielded that same sense of change as a threat; he was the revanchist voice of those who yearned to make America the way it was before, to make it great again.
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He yearned to be a love poet on the order of Catullus (about whom Dunn has written a very good book), but had neither the talent nor the courage to reveal his eroticism so nakedly.
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In 1988, long after Peary's death, The New York Times ran a correction to its original 1909 story admitting that The Times and the society ''may have failed to scrutinize adequately what they yearned to believe.
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I memorized scenes from romantic comedies and recited the dialogue in the dark in my bedroom, door locked, tears streaming down my face as I tried to summon emotions I yearned to experience in real life.
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When he'd started picking apart the console's software a decade earlier, it had seemed like harmless fun—a way for him and his friends to match wits with the corporate engineers whose ranks they yearned to join.
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They seemed like a barrage, a way to chide me for leaving and the paper and pen equivalent of hands that held me too tightly, trying to pull me away from a life I yearned to create.
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His first meal was stewed pork knuckle over rice, a dish he had yearned to eat while stranded in the cave, where the boys had no food for days and survived only on water dripping from stalactites.
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But she yearned to make skating more accessible and figured that selling high quality, lifestyle oriented skates designed to perform recreationally—rather than the drab tan and black, rentable indoor models—was the right place to start.
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It's sabotage, and besides the obvious question — why didn't Empirical force a non-compete on Charles when he left — it's a terrible thing to do to your new girlfriend, who's yearned to be with you for years.
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When he went before the board, he was disappointed that Barton never provided him with an opportunity to talk about the bed-wetting; the thing he feared talking about was also the thing he yearned to discuss.
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Joe Biden surged to Super Tuesday wins by assembling the primary coalition he and other Democrats have yearned to build for a year, fusing domination among black voters with strong support from whites that crossed over class lines.
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But Obama also portrayed Trump as no ordinary Republican, attacking the GOP nominee's convention in Cleveland as a festival of anger, resentment and pessimism that trafficked in hate, talked down America and yearned to withdraw from the world.
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Frank Oteng, who said he had taken a statistics class with Mr. Artan last spring at Columbus State Community College, recalled him as a diligent student who sought help on coursework and yearned to transfer to Ohio State.
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But CEO Bobby Kotick, who has long yearned to expand the cultural footprint of videogames, insisted he was serious, and he backed it up by hiring Nick van Dyk, a Disney veteran, to serve as his founding studio chief.
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And that's what Mattis did during his visit to the troops, who no doubt yearned to hear that their presence made sense but could be told that only if Mattis lied for the president and to all of us.
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The territory's dispirited chief executive, Carrie Lam, is insisting that she is not ceding to protesters' demands that she step down, even though an audio recording emerged of her telling local businesspeople last week that she yearned to resign.
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When he yearned to confer with his father about Interlude, he went looking for passages about the company; when his son was born, last year, he searched for what his father had written when his first child was born.
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MAHMOOD ELAHI, OTTAWA To the Editor: The American missiles that fell on Syria may have satisfied those who yearned to avenge Bashar al-Assad's brutal gas attacks, but they won't bring back the children mercilessly killed in those attacks.
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Having felled the brash Mr. Trump, who unceasingly predicted victory and dominated the race up until the first voting, Mr. Cruz can credibly portray himself, to conservatives who have yearned to unite behind a strong champion, as a giant-killer.
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Just think of the millions from all over the globe who yearned to be on that island, that city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all who insisted on being where all the things were happening.
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Ever since the country won the world cup in 1998, with a multi-racial team made up of black, blanc, beur ("black, white and Arab"), the French have yearned to recapture that moment of post-colonial conviviality and national euphoria.
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That narrative brings an intriguing array of characters through Molly's orbit, as well as an account of how it all worked, from procuring big-money "fish" to participate to the renowned gambler (Michael Cera) with whom everyone yearned to compete.
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Donald Trump barely won the White House, under circumstances — a tainted opponent, three million fewer votes than she received, James Comey's moral vanity and Russia's amoral exertions — that raise serious questions about how many Americans yearned to see him there.
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The first was the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who as a schoolboy in Seattle yearned to become an astronaut but, being nearsighted, realized that was impossible so spent his time coding in the school's computer room with his friend Bill Gates.
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All of us at one point have yearned to have the kind of strength and bravery that encapsulated King Arthur, which is only expected to increase tenfold once you see the new movie about his life, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
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"I always yearned to see Punjab - my motherland - and now I am so proud to be here after almost 40 years," she told TV reporters at the time, her voice choking with emotion as she steadied herself with nips from a water bottle.
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"Let me tell you where people are dying is in Africa," he told an audience after he returned, launching into a story about a young village girl who yearned to be able to read by electric light instead of a smoky fire.
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As a boy in Granada, he yearned to wear the colorful costumes of his female idols, dancers like Eva Yerbabuena, Matilde Coral and Blanca del Rey and glamorous movie stars of the 1950s and '60s who sang and danced, like Lola Flores and Carmen Sevilla.
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In her new book, Maangchi writes about how her videos have helped everyone from Korean adoptees who yearned to learn more about their cultures to families who have lost mothers and were brought together by food to non-Koreans who started businesses and restaurants with her recipes.
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Her friends, who have always treated her the way she's yearned to be treated, suddenly aren't good enough; why hang with them when she can now gain entry to the secret clubs in the back of shady dim sum restaurants, courtesy of her shiny beauty industry friends?
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And it was an image that generations of Colombians had yearned to see on their soil: A sitting president shaking the hands of the very rebel leader whom government forces had once hunted in the mountains, as the two sides pledged a future of peaceful politics.
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If you've yearned to see Halle Berry work with a trained 'assassin dog' that leaps from her back to scamper up a wall to a higher mezzanine area and take down a looming opponent, this is your moment (and yes, that very good doggo actually did that stunt).
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Sure, being an ersatz adult meant that I could do all the things my teenage id yearned to do — drink alcohol, take drugs and (try to) have sex — but it didn't mean that I could forget the ordeals my father put me through on the highways of Chicagoland.
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" I did not want to try heroin or sleep with men who shit the bed, but I still yearned to be cool enough to not "choose life," the Irvine Welsh equivalent of being what The Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caulfield considers a "phony" or what your kid sister calls "basic.
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But the electoral result has transformed him into a masterful politician who boldly gambled and won his bet that the British people were fed up with "dithering politicians" and yearned to "get Brexit done," end Parliamentary chaos and see their country pointed in clearer and better directions under strong leadership.
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Like his protagonist, he relished being naughty but yearned to be rich; those desires were hardly irreconcilable in a city that simultaneously embraced the materialism of the Reagan era and rejected its moralism, where stretch limos deposited partygoers in unseemly neighborhoods and yuppies ran rampant while "Die Yuppie Scum" graffiti spread.
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BACOLET BAY, Trinidad and Tobago — Jay Ferreira, who was born in Trinidad and had grown to love its sister island, Tobago, had yearned to build something groundbreakingly modern there, eventually choosing Bacolet Bay, a stomping ground of Hollywood celebrities in the mid-20th century, as the site for his eco-friendly property.
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A Word With As a 7-year-old in North Carolina, Amy Sedaris yearned to host her own hospitality show, inspired by local women like Peggy Mann and Betty Elliot who, on sets resembling their homes, discussed the finer points of bat sleeves and collar construction or the lineage of Mayflower descendants.
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Like all text-adventure games, The Lurking Horror relied solely on prose and the player's imagination, but its smarts and sense of atmosphere wormed their way into my brain — so much so that when I later went to college, I yearned to discover underground steam tunnels that were home to evildoing at my own university.
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More than he wanted to kiss a woman, or hear a divine concerto performed by angels, or paint a perfect painting, he yearned to pass that exam and the interview that followed it and live out his remaining brief life on a grassy hill, under blue skies, among normal people and not only rapidly aging children and their instructors.
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Cornuelles, a variety of water chestnut that grow wild on the ponds in the Puisaye, were what Colette yearned to eat when she returned to Burgundy, but since this lowly food wasn't on the menu at L'Hostellerie, the chef Raymond Olivier of Le Grand Vefour in Paris intervened on Colette's behalf to ask Dumaine to prepare them for her.
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There are too many make-weights here, paintings which are not quite good enough, paintings that we probably want to see because they are undeniably by Paul Gauguin, but not what we might have yearned to come to see and even expected to see, given the promise of such a show as this one, and the fanfare that has surrounded its opening. Why?
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Cooper has been working since his father's death, when he became a child model, not because he yearned to be in front of a camera, but because modeling was a profession that offered a substantial paycheck to underage laborers.) Mr. Cooper described a trip to Studio 54 when Ms. Vanderbilt was again dating Sidney Lumet (who had also been — stay with me here — husband No. 3) after Mr. Cooper's father's death.
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At 16, while earning fabulous sums as a recitalist, he later wrote that he felt sick of being "a performing dog" and yearned to join the priesthood; at 20 he gaily dived into salons in Paris while immersing himself in proto-Marxist philosophy; when he was 35 and at the height of his fame, he suddenly abandoned his virtuoso career to devote himself to conducting, teaching and playing in concerts for charity; at 54 he took orders to become an abbé, but that in no way inhibited his brilliantly successful talent for self-publicity, or for bewitching the female pupils who continued to pursue him almost to the end of his days.
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