Word: pointedness
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But it is precisely those imperfections--and the painful self-awareness of those failings etched in every crease of his face and reflected in those haunted eyes--that make him so compelling. For when the time came to confront the greatest moral challenge this nation has ever faced, this all...
But Lincoln's stories provided more than mere amusement. Drawn from his own experiences and the curiosities reported by others, they frequently conveyed practical wisdom that his listeners could remember and repeat. For instance, when the Civil War was coming to an end and the debate began over what to...
What did she do to deserve such vilification? As her modern biographers have pointed out, Mary Todd Lincoln's greatest sin, perhaps, was to be born in the wrong century. The daughter of a prominent Kentucky family whose mother died when she was just a girl, Mary was a bright...
Jaime Cardinal Sin, who died last week at the age of 76 after a long fight with cancer, once wore his power lightly. He had a sly sense of humor-invaluable for a priest named Sin-and some of his sharper critiques of the dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos came...
The explosive growth in the number of Soviet missile warheads--which is pointed to by those who say, "We build, they build; we stop, they build"--occurred between 1975 and 1980. During that period the Soviets more than doubled the number of their missile warheads, from 2,500 to 5...