Word: dirt
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WITH SWEAT SLIDING DOWN HIS BROW, scientific sleuth James Starrs shoves a long steel probe down through the dirt around the grave of American explorer Meriwether Lewis. A few moments later, his team drags a radar sled across the same neatly clipped grass and around the weathered limestone monument. Their mission: to learn the truth of Lewis' mysterious death by gunshot here on a Tennessee stretch of the Natchez Trace, the old road between Natchez, Mississippi, and Nashville, Tennessee, nearly 183 years ago. Did this pioneer, whose trek to the Pacific Northwest with William Clark has been a staple...
...Donald wrote an essay in 1951 on "Getting Right with Lincoln," detailing how Presidents in trouble had claimed kinship. Franklin Roosevelt once suggested that Lincoln was a father of the New Deal. This season Truman quotes have been manufactured and mangled, while his prepolitical identity is often shortened to "dirt farmer." There is a suspicion that very few have studied McCullough's splendid text, particularly the first part. Bush admitted he jumped over some of that and went straight to the campaign of 1948. (Young George Bush voted for Dewey that year...
When he became a dirt farmer, his relatives never saw him in bib overalls. One recalled him under a Panama hat in a wagon. And in the barn was a 1911 Stafford convertible ("a rich man's car") with a brass-framed windshield and huge Prestolite lamps. In that grand machine, after plowing, he burned up the road back to Independence, where his indulgences with his gang ran to picnics, theater and poetry. Today's Democrats should be cautious when putting their arms around Harry. He disliked jazz, modern art and most liberals. The mind boggles contemplating what he would...
...aren't there rather a lot of them? And what are they good for, besides embarrassing themselves, titillating us commoners and boosting the circulation of tabloids? A Sunday Express poll conducted just after the Fergie topless pictures hit the newsstands found that 61% of respondents thought the summer's dirt had caused "lasting damage to the image of the Royal Family." Only 42% believed Britain would have a monarchy 50 years from...