Word: clambering
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...class divide. My father, who grew up in Rust Belt northern Ohio, knew boys who died in Vietnam; my mother, who is from Brooklyn, didn’t even know anyone who went. During this war, the exempt are kids who are rich or those ambitious enough to clamber out of their little towns without joining the Army—or who are lucky enough not to hail from those little towns in the first place. And it is the names of the kids who weren’t rich or lucky that appear almost every...
Students leaving foreign locales for Cambridge have long dealt with a disappointing drop in the number of transportation options open to them. Tokyo’s longtime bullet-train commuters clamber drearily onto the unreliable T, while quaint Europeans enthused of the unicycle are frowned at by our city’s hard-headed pedestrians. And then there are those from even more exotic climes like that of, well, the rest of the urban United States, who discover that on the tortured “grid” of metropolitan Boston, taxicab rides are ever-unfolding, decidedly meta Borgesian enigmas...
...innocent, I know nothing of it, I have done no witchcraft.” Elizabeth Howe, Hanged. July 16, 1692. “If it was the last moment I was to live, God knows I am innocent.” Children clamber around on the headstones that cover the area, as their parents stoop to read the inscriptions...
...night to wiping little noses and teaching kids their colors and shapes by day. That said, he knows he's unusual. When parents walk into his preschool in Oak Park, Ill., and see a young man in baggy clothes, some "freak out," he says. But when their children clamber onto his back and call him Mr. A., the moms and dads come around. ("Isn't he adorable?" whispers a mother to a visitor.) The job pays Echevarria about $15,000 a year and helps him finance his next goal: earning a degree to teach elementary school. Teaching is already...
What happened? Easy. Schröder has to face the voters on Sept. 22, and all the polls signal a sure defeat. His Social Democratic Party has been trailing Edmund Stoiber's Christian Democrats for many weeks, most recently by seven percentage points. Schröder simply cannot clamber out of the hole that is deepened daily by a sinking economy, plummeting stock markets and worsening unemployment. About to end up as a one-term Chancellor, he is playing his last worst card: nationalism with an anti-American tinge...