Word: threading
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...late night we spent talking about how he almost married his high school sweetheart (not Susan, whom he met last fall) and that she was the only girl he had ever dated up to that point. At the time, he felt he was "naive." Danny said only a thread of indecision stopped him from going through with it, but it had been better for both of them...
...Washington--along with the rest of the country--flounders through another long hot summer, there is one thread that colors almost every conversation. That thread, of course, is the Watergate investigation...
...reason and Marxist exegesis to bear on such unsuspecting material as the ass of Balaam, the quarrel over Job, and Martin Luther's argument with the devil in the bathroom mirror. Ostensibly a hodge-podge of theological quibbles, the book sews its cases in point together with the strong thread of a sophisticated socialist ethics, and a delightful sense of both the fun and sometimes the necessity of playing havoc with the party line...
Thomson says that the Nieman program consists of two tracks--one academic, and the other an "extracurricular" series of Nieman luncheons, dinners and beer and cheese seminars which bring the group together and provide a thread of continuity between academia and the world of reporting and public affairs...
...Asian religious festival, or at the eyes of a peasant planting rice in a lagoon shows the futility of explaining Asian society with Western ideas. What does "medical care" mean to people who believe in reincarnation and bodily deprivation? What does "industry" mean to people who still spin thread by hand? Western observers nevertheless continue to foist their models on Asian society. More tragically, they attempt to make the society conform to their models...