Word: martially
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...practice martial arts?" He wonders...
McCain, at bottom, is concerned with an old problem, addressed eloquently by William James a little less than a century ago: How can a nation preserve the martial virtues--McCain's "selfless devotion to a cause"--during peacetime? Or, as James put it: Whence comes a moral equivalent...
This realization led me to create a few general rules that will be helpful for martial arts beginners should one decide to give it a whirl...
After practicing for a month now, I've learned how to roll without hands, how to deflect and defeat a knife attacks and how to throw people from headlocks. But I am also convinced that martial arts would also work well in conjunction with the massage class after taking multiple blows from the floor. Water aerobics might also be worth looking into...
...this race. In the Bush and McCain clans, expectations are stamped in the genetic code, assumed at birth, resented in adolescence like hair that won't lie flat or legs too short for basketball. Each generation seemed to raise the stakes ever higher. McCain, whose family traces its martial roots back to Charlemagne, entered the Navy as the son and grandson of four-star admirals. Bush, whose family is distantly connected to the Queen of England, entered national politics the son of a President and grandson of a Senator. Both men were raised by absent fathers and strong mothers...