Word: josepher
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...event has turned out to involve big risks, well, Obama likes big risks. This is a man who, with the cameras rolling in Afghanistan, elected to fire a basketball from 3-point range rather than move in for a layup. Who chose as his running mate Senator Joseph Biden, a verbal thrill ride who might say anything at any moment and very frequently does. Who - and this is the biggie - decided with just a couple of years in the Senate under his belt to take on the Clinton machine in a battle for control of the Democratic Party...
...longer possible. He can sell his fruit but only at a fraction of the price, he says. "Where are we supposed to sell now? America is too far away. Russia is better for us than America." He says all this while standing under a towering statue of Soviet strongman Joseph Stalin, who was born in Gori, in a town square where most of the windows were recently blown out by Russian bombs. His views are still the exception in most of Georgia but probably music to the ears of Russian soldiers and tank commanders still clanking through the streets...
...CROSSNESS ENGINES HOUSE Designed by Joseph Bazalgette, 19th century creator of the London sewage system, the Crossness Engines House waste-water pumping station is a feat of Victorian engineering. Inside is a rare marriage of brute power and beauty: four of the world's largest rotative beam engines, surrounded by ornate cast-iron work that has been carefully restored to stunning effect...
...first time I ever used the term post--civil rights to describe the new generation of African-American politicians I was studying, the Rev. Joseph Lowery hollered at me. He wanted to know, What in the devil does that mean...
...first time I ever used the term post-civil rights to describe the new generation of African-American politicians I was studying, the Rev. Joseph Lowery hollered at me. He wanted to know, What in the devil does that mean...