Word: mindedness
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At the 12-mile mark, we became aware of a dull roar ahead, louder than the usual crowd noise that stretched uninterrupted from beginning to end. At 13 miles, the halfway point in the race, we were in Wellesley, where we funneled through a mass of screaming students who stood...
The political development of the white homesteading women represented in the memoirs is well documented as they move from passive helpmates to gun toters, mayors, and temperance and suffrage stumpers. Carrie Nation, one of the more notorious Kansas pioneer women, appears in several memoirs, her rallying cry of "smash, women...
To be sure, Young's racing pulse slowed down soon after landing-and the nation's is likely to do the same. Says Forrest Berghorn, a political scientist at the University of Kansas: "The American spirit is too self-centered to concern itself with this for very long...
Their experiences had soured them to the American dream even before the Levittowns had started sprouting in every suburb. But there are no speeches about the horrors of the system in Talley's Folly--their dissatisfaction turns inward. It is on this ground that Wilson's two characters finally come...
The King James is no longer the single predominant American Bible, though, for a number of reasons. First, it is often confusing, especially for the young. The problem goes well beyond thee and thou or verb forms like loveth. Numerous words have changed meaning over the centuries. In current terms...