Word: nearer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bond spends what he likes, keeps a stable of cars, fornicates by proxy for six million commuters. He is indifferent to pain (particularly other people's), and is fortunate in one respect: the nearer he gets to the enemy, the more horrible the enemy becomes...
...doubt nearer reality, that whites--Christian or otherwise, liberal or conservative--who attack Negro demonstrators or oppose Negro protests are not always rational or near conversion, but men for whom the Negro problem is almost organically bound with many of their fears; men prone to irrationality and hysteria. Many are more like the Anabaptist Christians who carried swords into a town they planned to occupy just as a reminder of what they might do if they were not civilized Christians. Once in the town square, the Holy Ghost spoke to them and they decided they had been tolerant long enough...
Another disgruntled Saville resident declared, "If they're going to make us living an ugly house, at least they could find one nearer the Square...
...State Department greatly regrets that De Gaulle and President Kennedy did not talk again after their Paris meeting in 1961, and hopes for a solution, or at least a nearer understanding, if De Gaulle soon has a face-to-face encounter with Lyndon Johnson. It might work. But the fact remains that De Gaulle has had close personal conferences with four successive...
...other hand, Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, heretofore a reluctant possibility, now seemed to some editorial analysts to have moved a lot nearer the money. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "He appears to have just the combination of qualities, both personal and political, that the Republican Party needs to oppose Lyndon Johnson...