Word: lumping
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Right-wing columnists like Charles Krauthammer [ESSAY, Sept. 22] have two essential responses to critics of President Bush's policies: 1) You're unpatriotic; 2) you're mad. In his commentary, Krauthammer doesn't indict me on the first count, but he does lump me in with a crowd of Democrats he describes as "seized with a loathing for President Bush--a contempt and disdain giving way to a hatred that is near pathological." However, what I feel as the result of President Bush's policies is sadness. I'm not mad at his "revolutionizing American foreign policy" or that...
...Roses are red/Violets are blue/Oh my, lump in the bed/How I've missed you." GEORGE W. BUSH, in a poem written to his wife upon her return from a trip abroad, as read by Laura Bush at the opening of the National Book Festival...
...More in Sadness than Anger Right-wing columnists like Charles Krauthammer [Sept. 22] have two essential responses to critics of President George W. Bush's policies: 1) you're unpatriotic; 2) you're mad. In his commentary, Krauthammer doesn't indict me on the first count, but he does lump me in with a crowd of Democrats he describes as "seized with a loathing for President Bush?a contempt and disdain giving way to a hatred that is near pathological." However, what I feel as the result of President Bush's policies is sadness...
...happens to every medical student sooner or later. You get a cough that persists for a while or feel a funny pain in the stomach or notice a tiny lump under the skin. Ordinarily, you would just ignore it--but now, armed with your rapidly growing store of medical knowledge, you can't help worrying. The cough could mean just a cold, but it could also be a sign of lung cancer. A twinge might be internal bleeding. The lump is probably a lymph node--but is it bigger than it should be? Could it be Hodgkin's disease...
...terrorist groups. Many of these groups continue to fight in their own countries or regions as well as to espouse global terrorism. The indigenous resistance in Iraq could grow and provide an impetus for the growth of global terrorism. But you have to be careful not to lump all of global terrorism under one corporate terrorist group led by one terrorist CEO. What makes terrorism so dangerous is that it's so diffuse...