Word: somehow
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...tribute to the fallen, President Barack Obama invoked a "world of threats that know no borders." Soldiers sacrifice to keep us safe; somehow we failed to keep them safe. It would be grim news for the intelligence community and the Army if they just missed all the warning signs. It would be worse news if they saw but chose to ignore them. (Read "Obama's Fort Hood Speech: Lost in Translation...
...when you’re in love, even / if then your voice forces open your mouth; — // learn to forget those songs. They elapse.” Though Snow preserves much of the syntax in Rilke’s original, there seems something diluted about the lines. Somehow the causal relation between the “voice” and the “mouth” is only weakly strung together by the pale “forces.” Compare these lines with the Mitchell: “…Young...
...reached by such schmoozing. Penn and Chavez, however, meet with the loftiest goals, beyond simply stroking each other’s egos: Penn assured Chavez (publicly, in an attempt to improve its likelihood) that he would soon meet with President Obama to relay any messages from Chavez, and somehow enable private dialogue between the two leaders...
...pretty sure I hit the goalie right in the chest,” Buesser said, “which is usually not a great area for rebounds, but it somehow popped...
...variety of myths that prevents us from acting [on climate change],” said James J. McCarthy, a biology professor who co-chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “Myths that the technology is non-existent, myths that the technology is too expensive, myths that somehow the problem will solve itself without the public and political will [Gore] inspires in this book and in his talks...