Word: thousanders
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...heroine of Henry James' The Bostonians went into mesmeric trances to gather recruits for the cause of feminism. Walt Whitman believed in transmigration of the soul -- "And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,/ (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)" -- and so did the practical-minded Thomas Alva Edison...
...Before I knew it, we were up by a thousand goals," Francis said, smiling. "It really helped...
Hearteningly, the fate of reviving districts is not always black and white. Preservationists are not all chevre eaters and squash players. Among the thousands of tax-delinquent houses New York City has sold off during the past five years, more than half have been bought by black and Hispanic homesteaders. The Longwood section of the South Bronx has had itself declared a historic district, and the predominantly black and Hispanic residents are restoring scores of neo-Renaissance houses. In Savannah, the National Trust has provided seed money so that 300 apartments in the Victorian historic district can be set aside...
Last week, twelve months and dozens of battles after she embarked on her campaign, Alice's quixotic crusade seemed close to collapse. Her army of followers, which once numbered several thousand, had been reduced by death and desertion to several hundred. Alice, wounded in the leg by government soldiers, was reported by authorities to be in hiding near the town of Iganga, about 80 miles east of Kampala, the capital. According to the Kampala-based newspaper Munno, the once fearless rebel was afraid that she would be killed if she surrendered to villagers or the army...
Aside from the fact that the first two statistics point to a serenity and self-contentedness which I find lacking in the city, the paragraph as a whole displays unforgivable ignorance. For the record, Boise is in Idaho, a thousand miles or more to the west of Iowa. And it lies in that section of the country we refer to as the North west, not the Midwest. Todd Christopher Andrew...