Word: inherited
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...infant child, and his album reflects his new domesticity. ("So what does your wife call you?" the Artist is asked. "She calls me many things," he replies.) Emancipation champions monogamy--especially on the swaying jam Friend, Lover, Mother/Wife. The Artist also seems anxious about the world his child will inherit--several songs, including New World, deal with technology's dangers...
Seen from the distance of 36 years, the campaign of 1960 seems to us high drama: two young men (Richard Nixon was only 47 when he ran against the 43-year-old J.F.K.) fighting to inherit the presidency from the oldest man ever to hold the office, in a contest marked by the first general-election debates in U.S. history, decided by barely 100,000 votes out of some 70 million cast, the highest American voter turnout in history...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "This election is about making sure that the world our children and grandchildren inherit from us is a world with all of the opportunity and freedom that they deserve. I want to pass them a torch that is still burning...
Hoping to inherit the mantle of retiring four-term Representative Lewis Payne, Goode is both a Democrat and a conservative populist: he is pro-gun, pro-life and pro-tobacco--and has fund-raising barbecues for a modest $5-a-plate...
...doctrine of original sin says that at birth we all inherit Adam's sinfulness. This is partly a claim about blame--it holds us accountable for Adam's sin even before we've done anything wrong--but it is also a claim about human nature; it says we are inclined to do wrong, that we have a hereditary dark side. As St. Augustine put it in the 5th century A.D.: After Adam sinned, our "soiled" and "corrupt" nature was "already present in the seed from which we were to spring...