Word: offerin
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...willin' for any solution--religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part. I don't know what it will take out there --500 casualties maybe, maybe 500,000. It's the aughts that scare...
...Well, around here, a man's handshake is his bond. And you never see a full grown man offerin up his thumb like 'at to another. Nossir...
...heavy with bitterness. Says one Jamaican: "If ever there's any fightin' in our parts o' de world, we'd be nastier to the English than to any one, because we'd be remembering that for generations an' generations we'd been offerin' them a love they never even try to return." Author Lamming himself has done better than most Indies emigrants. Not yet 30, he has been a BBC broadcaster, his writing has been widely praised, and he is now in the U.S. on a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Emigrants fails...
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