Word: strangerness
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...icebreaker was senior forward David Kramer, who was no stranger to the Post net yesterday. With 4:35 left and the Crimson down, 10-8, Kramer tallied his team-leading fifth goal of the afternoon...
...book of Exodus not Joshua or Samuel, That the Jews make their covenant with God and receive the divine laws, and it is in Exodus that God tells the Jews, "You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt" (22:21) Isaiah urges us to "learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression" (1:17), and the 82nd Psalm echoes the religious responsibility to "Give justice to the weak...maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute...
...flag reminds me of the warm Southern hospitality, the willingness to look a stranger in the eye and say "hello" with no ulterior motive, the relaxed approach to an otherwise hectic life and consideration and sensitivity to others. I regret that the flag stirs in others emotions and feelings totally opposite of what I had intended and what the South is about today. Many people saw in the flag racism and insensitivity, emotions completely alien to those it stirs in me. Try as I may, I could not get many to even consider looking at the flag in another light...
Weld's federal appointments have helpedestablish a sound public service record, but havedistanced him from some members of both partieswho see him as a stranger to Massachusetts,spending a large part of his public life commutingto Washington...
...into the cars to deduce their owners, notice whether shop front displays have changed, anticipate the queues for broken escalators to the Victoria Line. Some days, walking home from work, I feel a self-contained elation, holding myself aloof and feeling bold; shouldering past the tourists, facing every new stranger with an inscrutable watchfulness. I'm still too weak though, there are traces of straw-sucking ingenuousness--my eyes sometimes widen in spite of themselves, and let people in. So I'm asked for 50p in the Chinese takeaway, I blush in shops, and I smirk at wolf-whistles. Only...