Word: counterfuls
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...trip near the leafy street corner in Independence, Mo., where Truman had his home. I strolled the downtown sidewalks along which the former President took his morning constitutional after he returned home from building the postwar world. In a shop near the courthouse, I asked the woman behind the counter what she was thinking about the election. She replied that she was a lifelong Republican and a big fan of Palin. "I find Sarah refreshing," she said. "More of a doer than a talker, down-to-earth, with family problems like the rest of us. You know, to a certain...
...women wouldn't give me their names. They said they were worried about what the store's owner might think. The reason I've mentioned them is that later, when those poll results came in, I recalled another thing the woman behind the counter had volunteered. "I would hate to think that anyone would vote against Obama because of who he is," she said, "but I also don't like the idea of people voting for him just because he's black...
...think so. The first substantial translation I did was from the Irish called “Sweeney Astray” from an Irish poem called “Buile Shuibhne.” Working with a very heavy concrete element of Anglo-Saxon was a counter-weight to what I was hearing in America. It’s a much opener conversational weave. I think of myself as between the two, but I was glad at that time of the substantial element in the language. It brought me back to more of a substantial language...
...Powerful Washington insiders, including a former U.S. ambassador to India, Robert D. Blackwill, and former Indiana Senator Birch Bayh, were retained by the Indian government in order to press for the deal’s passage. And this organizing came in the face of virtually no counter-lobbying from the Pakistani-American lobby...
...Murray is among just a handful of public intellectuals who are willing to talk openly about these statistics. Most remain fearful, because such a suggestion is so counter to our feel-good conceptions of social mobility. But there is nothing about this evidence that should make us uncomfortable. The idea that there would be a correlation between class and intelligence is completely consistent with the dream of American opportunity because it reinforces this sense that our idealized, meritocratic society is working. There is nothing shocking about the notion that people who are capable would rise to high-paying jobs...