Word: broads
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...first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln spoke to a nation darkened by the breaking storm of the Civil War. He closed, "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." In those days, long before the advent of mass education, Lincoln had no doubt that Americans maintained a communal memory of their history...
Handsome and broad-shouldered, a proud French Canadian, Poirier speaks in the comfort of a favorite pub not far from the Shearwater military base where he lives, across the bay from Halifax. The father of three worries about the next time his children will get on a plane...
...more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in "The American people won't stand for this!" Far as I'm concerned, the American people are perfectly capable of speaking for themselves, but I do address, with some confidence, the broad consensus of We in the Boonies over the past eight months: We were more informed than we wanted to be about Mr. Clinton's transgressions. In fact, we are so well informed, we were about to collectively puke, and we sure as hell don't want to hear any more details...
...Prof. Anderson said in the article, "A broad emotional base leads to the finest research." Advisers with that type of viewpoint--including my own at Harvard--probably don't encounter many problems with their adviser-student relationships, but does Harvard believe that statement enough to encourage all its faculty to act according to it? KATIE QUEENEY Murray Hill, N.J., Sept. 17, 1998 The writer received a Ph.D. in chemistry in June...
...This was a bunch of black guys who were supposed to be drunk coming back from a basketball game," said another 43-year-old man. "Where was that racist?" Obviously President Clinton's now-forgotten national dialogue on race hasn't yet been taken up in Broad Channel...