Word: shores
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Saying that he hopes Thomas has not abandoned the civil rights movement, Higginbotham said, "Some people are willing to let the whole ship sink, to let all the passengers drown, to get safely to shore. I trust that you are not one of them...
According to Voshchanov, the party acted like a criminal cartel, financing what it called "friendly firms" abroad. He claimed to have seen a list of 60 such companies, all created by Western Communists. Last week Justice Minister Fedorov told parliamentary investigators the party had shamelessly used Western credits to shore up debt-ridden friendly companies in Europe instead of buying much needed grain or baby food...
...Washington, Wilson garnered a false reputation for being a moderate. (The National Journal even gave him a "liberal" rating on social issues.) Indeed, his talk would have made any Democrat proud. And Wilson did vote for a number of environmental measures, especially those preventing off-shore drilling. He even chattered about getting more money for child care and--believe it or not--AIDS research...
Tropical beach, blazing sun, men in white suits, winsome native children. A horse gallops along the shore as a light plane lazes overhead. A beautiful woman sits in a convertible, adored from afar, drenched in diamonds, caressed by a soft-focus camera. The plane lands, several dapper gents step out and launch a poker game. As the stakes escalate, the sexiest of them frets, "I'm a little short." The woman takes charge. "Not so fast," she says, removing a huge sparkler and tossing it onto the table. "These have always brought me luck," she purrs...
...that the pain was also entangled with a miracle: the miracle of her 45-year-long survival, for one thing, when such a terrible undertow was pulling her, and the miracle of her poems, or some of them at least -- the dark, intelligent objects that she floated toward shore before she went under...