Word: contact
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...Johnston (BJ): An editor approached me about doing it, and I thought it was a wonderful idea. When that editor couldn’t make it happen, I went to Random House and they immediately jumped on it. After that, it was really a dream project. I got to contact all these writers that I admired...For example, when I asked Joyce Carol Oates, she agreed to help and also told me about all these other people that I could try.2.FM: The way the book explains writing makes it sound like an almost physical experience. Is that a common attitude...
...cadets need time to finish a paper or finish a class, they just contact us,” Karwowski said. “You know we’ve got MIT. They say they’ve got a problem set. And we say, ‘you need some time? Okay.’ I think that’s the way it should be, because they’re here because they want...
...Feldman had spent his time in Iraq establishing contacts with Iraqis across the political spectrum. He offered his contact information to everyone he met. He made it clear that he would be available for consultation as Iraqis readied their interim constitution...
...mouth: “Come and help us.” There is a grim irony in this apostrophe to the Puritan mission civilisatrice, for, as any American must admit, the colonization of North America proceeded not under the mantle of aid but of annihilation. Within years of European contact, Massachusetts’ aboriginal people were decimated by disease and then finished off by military action...
...chief, first in Ukraine and then in Russia, the beefy Vitaly Fedorchuk was known as a thug. Thought to be behind kidnappings and murders as the "Butcher of Ukraine," he later persecuted Russians who had too much contact with foreigners before finally becoming highly visible as the Soviet Union's top cop in the '80s. His efforts at first seemed to foreshadow perestroika-like reforms: he exposed official corruption and condemned drunkenness. But Western analysts called his heavy-handed tactics "neo-Stalinist." In the late '80s Mikhail Gorbachev sidelined him. Fedorchuk...