Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foregone conclusions. Fits starts off matter-of-factly: "The two people who died were in their early sixties." There has been, it turns out, a particularly gory murder-suicide in a small town. Nobody knows what drove this couple to such a fate. Speculation flourishes: "A division of opinion became evident between men and women. It was nearly always the men who believed and insisted that the trouble had been money, and it was the women who talked of illness." Yet the story's emphasis falls not on the victims but on the woman, a next-door neighbor, who finds...
Your essay seeks support for its views in Chief Justice John Marshall's justly celebrated opinion in McCulloch vs. Maryland (1810): "We must never forget that this is a constitution we are expounding . . . intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." However, this quotation, achieved by melding two different . sentences eight pages apart, misrepresents Chief Justice Marshall's view. Marshall was not saying that courts may invent new constitutional values in order to keep pace with the times, but rather that Congress may "avail itself of experience, exercise...
...powder pours past the border patrol like sand through a sieve. On busy street corners and in urban parks, pushers murmur, "Crack it up, crack it up," like some kind of evil incantation, bewitching susceptible kids and threatening society's sense of order and security. The public is outraged; opinion polls show that drug abuse has surpassed economic woes and the threat of real war as the nation's No. 1 concern. For a nation whose penchant for righteous crusades can surpass even its tolerance for libertine individualism, the crackdown against crack has become the latest celebrated cause...
Informed of this opinion, Geller raises his eyebrows. He continues to sit in the dark, an attending slave to the station or the music, it isn't clear which. His arms are folded across his chest, his shock of gray hair stands up off his scalp, his lower lip is rolled out. "So?" he asks finally. Another long pause. "Does it mean he wants me to drop dead...
...government campaign in which one Cabinet minister warned him against committing "wicked acts under the cloak of religion," Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The government would undoubtedly love to ban him or arrest him, but officials are concerned about the price the country would pay in world opinion...