Word: proclaimer
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...mercifully on behalf of its most desperate citizens, a country loses more than its credibility; it weakens its character. After such a long and ambivalent search for answers to this problem, Americans should rejoice that there is at last an opportunity to act on the principles they so proudly proclaim...
...dusty pickups and weathered sedans to confront what they say is a criminal invasion of America. They park single file along a marshy field on the San Diego-Tijuana border. Soon the men and women are engaged in chitchat typical of a social event. Their crimson bumper stickers proclaim WE WANT ORDER ON OUR BORDER, a demand that nearby U.S. Border Patrol agents work hard to enforce. Some of the 800 officers, who nightly nab upwards of 1,500 immigrants in this sector alone, buzz by in spotter choppers or patrol in four-wheel-drive vehicles, while others survey...
...there will be strong pressures driving the center and the republics toward compromise. Neither seems able to overcome the other economically; the republics can probably no more get the managers of state enterprises to obey their commands than Gorbachev can enforce his decrees. Yeltsin and his aides proclaim continued readiness to join Gorbachev in some kind of coalition government of "national trust" to guide the Union through the wrenching transition to a market economy. The Yeltsinites insist, however, that any coalition must drop Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov. So far, Gorbachev has shown no disposition to dump...
...unless they proclaim themselves vehemently, lesbians generally remain overlooked. While two men living together typically occasion comment, women living together don't. Simply being unmarried and of mature years can subject a man to scrutiny about his sexual preference -- it happened to David Souter after his nomination to the Supreme Court -- but an "old maid" more often faces just pity or condescension. Although most social scientists have rejected the view that homosexuality is far less common among women than men, the idea persists in the public at large. When homosexuals are discussed in the media, men are almost always...
...rumors arose last spring that Blanchard might choose a new running mate in seeking a third four-year term this year, she snapped, "He should be taken immediately to a psychiatrist." And as Blanchard spread his hopeful view that Griffiths might quietly withdraw, she called a press conference to proclaim that she was "available" to run again. Finally, following his announcement that he did not want her on the ticket, Griffiths declared, "The biggest problem in politics is that you help some s.o.b. get what he wants, and then he throws you off the train...