Word: roading
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Perhaps the sluggishness of the book is a result of Morris' style. Quaint and engaging at first, her sentences meander through her paragraphs like a peaceful country road winding its way through the hills of Denmark. Yet, after a hundred pages of strolling through the highways and byways of Europe, the laid-back pace of the prose begins to grate on the nerves. Morris seems almost the quintessential kindly, old British matron and as a result, listening to her drone on is like having an especially long lunch with your grand-mother. She usually has good stories to tell...
...Steelers, an unpopular pick against the peaking Pats. They're only getting 2.5, but that won't matter. They need a big road win; young Kordell and The Bus will smell the chance to define their season. The Eagles, for reasons known only to Ricky Watters (and he ain't talking), will beat the Falcons in Atlanta. And Daddy likes another limb pick: the PANTHERS, at home in the Mobile-Phone-Dome, will eke out at least a cover against Green Bay, who has too many ailing troops not to sag a little this week. Oh. And KC is simply...
...Porter Road resident reported that an unknown person removed a brown wallet from his coat pocket while he was at a restaurant on JFK Street...
...with outstanding educational achievements and impressive resumes. Committed to scholarship, their attitude toward politics falls somewhere between disdain and indifference. Even at the Kennedy School of Government many students think that policy expertise is a fungible commodity with political experience. They are not interested in learning the essential political road maps, and like students at other elite campuses, too many Harvard students want to make policy without making politics. This is about as realistic as wanting to win a gold medal in the butterfly stroke without putting your face in the water...
...admit that after 25 years on the political battlefields, I have been called a political junkie. But while sick of the corrosive influence of political fundraising, I am still attracted to politics because that is the only road that can take me to the places where policy decisions happen...