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4 DVDs for only $0.49 each (plus s&h)! What are you waiting for? Start building your library today with your favorite films. With so many titles to choose from, you?re bound to find some essential titles you just can't live without! Click for more details. http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/27985/161445/161445 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/27985/161445/161445"< AOL users click here </a< \-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-/ Word of the Day for Friday March 15, 2002: sunder \SUN-dur\, transitive verb: To break apart; to separate; to divide; to sever. intransitive verb: To become parted, disunited, or severed. As the issue of slavery threatened to sunder the United States, President Abraham Lincoln, using biblical language, warned that "a house divided against itself cannot stand." --Morris B. Abraham, "Using the bully pulpit at the United Nations," [1]Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 20, 1997 Momentous business was at hand, as the last colonial ties with England were about to be sundered, and Madison was compelled to take his stand for both a separation from the mother country and the erection of a republican form of government. --Robert A. Rutland, James Madison and the Search for Nationhood Their romance was sundered by World War II, and she scarcely saw Tito again until 1953. --"Tribute: For 40 Years Prima Ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn Created a Soaring Legend of Grace and Beauty," [2]People, March 11, 1991 _________________________________________________________ Sunder is from Old English sundrian. References 1. http://www.startribune.com/ 2. http://people.aol.com/people/index.html _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: matt.motley@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-357530C@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2002 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.
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