Word: barriere
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...party system wide open and shown there is a real alternative," insisted William Pitt, the victorious Liberal candidate. Pitt (no kin to the 18th century Prime Minister) had lost in the constituency three times before. With his triumph, declared S.D.P. Leader Shirley Williams, "we have broken the credibility barrier...
...Adele Lojko, 59, the eight steps leading from the sidewalk to the front door of her suburban Boston home were a barrier as forbidding as the Great Wall of China. Often confined to a wheelchair with severe rheumatoid arthritis, she had to be carried up and down the steps. But now, after many years of needing assistance whenever she came or left, Mrs. Lojko proudly navigates that once insurmountable hurdle by herself, needing only a cane...
...wise, and if they had not been so shortsighted in some ways, America might now be a much larger country than it is. Not wanting to offend the Indians-or interfere with the lucrative fur trade-London continued to prohibit settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. The Appalachian Barrier Act was often ignored, but it nonetheless slowed development of the Far West-that vast area between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River. Only in this century have Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, for example, had populations large enough to qualify for provincehood; until 1908 they had territorial governors appointed directly...
Another unfortunate consequence of the Barrier Act was to encourage the French to try to push their frontier east of the Mississippi. The Emperor Napoleon had been tempted to sell all of France's New World holdings-for as little as ? 3 million-but Jefferson, that consummate troublemaker, convinced him not only to keep his 828,000 square miles but to populate them with the landless peasants of France and Southern Europe. If it had not been for Jefferson-non piangere per me, indeed!-America, our British America, might now extend from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains...
...summer of '67. Then, after extending Harvard's string of undefeated collegiate seasons to five, they found themselves at the starting line of that amazing Olympic Trial race in Long Beach, California, which marked the first time that four American crews who had all broken the six-minute barrier for 2000 meters had ever faced each other...