Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began making a list of whom he might choose as a running mate. He says that his most important considerations are to pick someone who is qualified to step up as President if necessary, a person "compatible with me on basic issues and general philosophy" and offering "some sort of geographical or other balance on the ticket." According to insiders at the Democratic National Committee, Carter's list includes two liberal U.S. Senators: Minnesota...
...safely take the kids to Sky Riders and have a nice, old-fashioned Saturday matinee kind of time yourself. The whole thing is nothing much, but since it is unpretentiously so, it ends up sort of special...
...would much rather have written the best song of a nation than its noblest epic." So said Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th century American poet, teller of horror tales and inventor of the detective story. A vulnerable sort, tormented by melancholy and eventually by drink, he was infatuated with the mystery and dramatic power of music. Years after his death in 1849, composers-Sousa, Rachmaninoff, Debussy-found themselves equally fascinated by the music of his words...
UMass outdueled the linksmen by 27 strokes. "They just sort of outclassed the field," Paxton said, as Minuteman Glen Sullivan pulled away from the pack, stringing rounds...
...grasps this fact clearly, and it informs his dissatisfaction and frustration with the scheme of being and not being. He sees the heavenly world the way the playwright does--as a fraud. He's an intellectual type, consigned for his shrewdness to menial tasks and thwarted revolutions. He's sort of sympathetic in his weakness; surely he would be happier with his head in the clouds. Instead, he's worse off than we are, with his feet firmly planted under the ground. It might be going a bit too far to call him a prole, but he works hard...