Word: chaptered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...next day proved to be equally eventful. After playing tackle football in the morning, seven of us drove to a toga party sponsored by Todd and Brian's fraternity chapter at Penn State. The party featured live goldfish to swallow, and brothers passing around "Gold Bond," a powder which both guys and girls rub on their crotches to obtain a tingling feeling. (Unfortunately, refusing to try it, I can't verify the experience...
...speak of the relationship between American Jews and Israel in terms of ominous overtones of divorce, as Horowitz does in the New York piece, is raising a false prospect: even if the two groups wanted to split with each other, they cannot. In this chapter of our history defined by proud nationhood, all Jews must do our best to support the state of Israel. In turn, Israel should return the favor of making itself truly a state for all the world's Jews to live or to visit...
...began the final chapter in the three-decades-long history of the Khmer Rouge, one of the century's most brutal, self-destructive regimes. More than a million people died during the rule of the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979. Since then tens of thousands more have been killed and maimed by the guerrilla war and the country's treacherous minefields...
Other details of the novel add to its credibility. The quaint chapter titles--from "I Improve My Friendship with Mr. Newton" to "I Go Among the Enemy"--make the tone honest yet personable. The opening quotes to each chapter, from Lidie's beloved book A Treatise on Domestic Economy, for the Use of Young Ladies at Home by Miss Catherine E. Beecher, adds a deliciously straight-faced irony to Lidie's own rather un-ladylike story. In addition, a mini-title that summarizes that page's subject in about five words or less is found at the top of every...
That book--the report Starr will eventually present to Congress--will contain a chapter on the further adventures of Hubbell, the former Associate Attorney General who has already spent 18 months in prison. Starr has tried to establish that when Clinton loyalists lined up some $700,000 in contracts for Hubbell in 1994, just after he resigned from the Justice Department and before he was indicted, the payments amounted to hush money. That investigation has also led nowhere, but Starr appears ready to go after Hubbell again, this time on tax charges relating to some...