Word: reckoner
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...attract enough of it to form an electoral majority. To do it, he must capture the imaginations of many Democrats and independents who are largely reconciled to the Big Government he likes to berate and have been cool toward Nixon in the past. At the same time, he must reckon with the disinherited, principally Negroes, who in some states can hold the balance in a tight election...
...Washington headquarters, an army of arm-twisters and saturation-of-publicity media-not to mention his bill for the dozens of cuff links seized by avid admirers-Bobby in Indiana, Nebraska and California has rented trains at a total cost of $8,700. No one has even attempted to reckon the cost to Kennedy of supporting the 13 relatives who are campaigning for him in the field, but their daily phone calls home must cost-by anyone else's standards-a minor fortune...
...Rabbi Goldman argues that Barnard's housing rules should be changed since they "cause a great deal of guilt because everybody breaks them." I reckon he could say the same about the Ten Commandments, but I don't think Moses would like it. Nor, very likely, would God. This is a rabbi...
...Almond Tea, I reckon. But ye can't rightly tell. I only come in for the coffee...
...Johnson must still reckon with the fact that substantially more than three members of his party are now ready to betray, deny or doubt him. They number millions. They see the nation struggling with wearying futility to solve its three major challenges-the endless war, the plague-ridden cities, the troubled economy-and they are tempted to cast about for new leadership. If Lyndon Johnson is to win renomination, he will have to convince them in the months ahead that he has the policies to control the crises, not vice versa...