Word: boatloads
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...course, I'd still be paying a boatload for such a fine ride, but as a taxpayer, I'm writing regular checks to Chrysler anyway. What's one more...
...Star junior Jeremy Lin, himself less than 100 percent for quite a few games this year, will be back, as will a talented cast of freshman contributors in Keith Wright, Peter Boehm, and Oliver McNally. Of course, Cornell will be back as well, returning a boatload of stars in Ryan Wittman, Louis Dale, and Chris Wroblewski. But Harvard has already shown it has the talent to down...
...sinned. It has been three months since I last attended Mass. I have instead spent Sunday mornings attending total-body workout classes at the gym, after which I have been attending brunch. In other words, no uncommon circumstances kept me from coming to church. I expect as penance a boatload of Hail Marys...
...Nonetheless, Elshtain, an Augustine expert, is willing to project Biblical morality into circumstances when denying entry to groups of immigrants is flat wrong, such as Franklin Roosevelt's unwillingness to admit a boatload of Jewish refugees from the Third Reich, resulting in their almost certain doom. But this, she writes, "is completely different from uncontrolled border crossing by people whose motivations are not life and death in the sense I am describing it but, rather economic...
...staying clear of Jamestown for the next four years. The English, though, weren't finished with her. In the spring of 1613, when Pocahontas was nearing 18, she was kidnapped by a colonist-sailor. Her father paid most of the ransom--a gaggle of English prisoners, guns and a boatload of corn--but the white men kept the girl just upriver from Jamestown. There the planter John Rolfe, a prosperous widower, soon found himself battling an attraction he deemed alternately sinful and sublime. In what must be the most peculiar betrothal request in American history, Rolfe wrote to Virginia Governor...