Word: harriet
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...surname to sons. For their firstborn, Pierce Barker and Carol Frost of Friendship, Md., did not bother with family at all, nor were they intimidated by the perils of hyphenating. They gave the child the surname Roth-Tubman, after the author Philip Roth and the 19th century abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Similarly, in Newton, Mass., Harry Finkelstein and Jamie Kelem junked their surnames and became the Keshets, from the Hebrew for rainbow...
...constitutional framers no more had in mind the socially psychotic prospect of every Tom, Dick and Harriet with a barnful of MAC-10s, Saturday night specials and AK-47s than, in writing the First Amendment, they had in mind the protection of child-porn video, which did not exist in the 18th century either. Nowhere does the Constitution say the right to bear arms means the right to bear any or all arms. Which arms is the real issue. At present, firepower has outstripped the law's power to contain it within rational limits...
Visions of notecards and Harriet Beecher Stowe danced through my head...
...Denial was probably the biggest challenge for me," said Harriet Cook in an interview. "Once I could acknowledge my own handicap, I learned to deal with it." Cook, who is completely blind, lost her sight over a five-year period because of severe cataracts...
...name was Harriet Kezieh Hunt. I guess grade school history can't teach you everything...