Word: clues
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...democracy, we need a few reality checkpoints at which we all crowd together, nabob and yahoo, and rub elbows and get a clue about who lives here other than us. The draft-board physical used to be such a checkpoint, where even a Rockefeller had to spread them and bend over, but that's gone, a casualty of Vietnam. The older generation that went through all those checkpoints--Central High, the cafeteria, the Army, the train station--those folks learned to stand in line and accept their place in the picture, and they learned decency and kindness. I can remember...
...generally more relaxed, more comfortable in his skin. "He has been less process oriented and less programmed than I've ever seen him," says former aide Elaine Kamarck. "He has a much more easygoing attitude toward the world than I ever knew him to have." One clue as to how he got there may be a little book in the Arlington, Va., house where he and Tipper have spent most of the past two years--The Meditation Year: A Seasonal Guide to Contemplation, Relaxation and Visualization. "Both Tipper and I have meditated for quite a while," he says...
...exciting as hell,” he said. “Nobody had any clue what to expect. The only sound information you had was looking at it through a microscope...
...outsider, to conduct the obligatory investigation into the Palace's handling of rape allegations, it was clear that the Windsors still understood nothing. The tabloids howled; Diana would surely have laughed. Alas for the Windsors - she was the only member of that benighted family who ever had a clue as to the true nature of the nation over which they are supposed long to reign. They'll never admit it, but they miss...
...this attitude that if she ever saw anyone talking down to the support staff, it was immediately a clue that this was not a kindred soul,” Coontz said. “This makes her a bit of an anomaly for an administrator in academia...