Word: chord
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...written. The President's eyes brightened as he repeated that phrase, and he seemed barely able to control his joy and confidence as he attacked his peroration: that even in the toughest times, "there is a generosity, a resilience, a decency and a determination that perseveres." This was the chord that had been missing in the first dour month of Obama's presidency - not so much optimism as confidence, the sense that he was not only steering the presidency, but loving the challenge of it. It was the quality that distinguished Franklin Roosevelt's public persona, guided by the motto...
Celebrities tell you more about the countries that produce them than any guidebook could. Take the mouthy, pugnacious Londoner Jade Goody, 27 and famous in the U.K. simply for being famous. Her joyfully lowbrow chatter struck a chord with the British public in 2002 when she appeared on the TV reality show Big Brother. Five years later, when Goody graduated to Celebrity Big Brother, Britons were less comfortable seeing themselves reflected in her instinctive hostility toward Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, the slinky, bejeweled personification of newly confident India. (Read TIME's TV blog, Tuned...
...Spaepen said in an interview this week that the loss of the liquifier could be weathered without grinding research to a halt, but the decision struck an ominous chord for Yacoby...
...coin as far as American culture and attitudes go. I don't think Bush ever took the opportunity in all his travels to see America or, for that matter, the rest of the world. He was never in touch. Thank you for your piece. It struck a major chord with me. Gregory S. McCoy, GUERNEVILLE, CALIF...
...coin as far as U.S. culture and attitudes go. I don't think Bush ever took the opportunity in all his travels to see America or, for that matter, the rest of the world. He was never in touch. Thank you for your piece. It struck a major chord with me. Gregory S. McCoy, Guerneville, Calif...