Word: tomes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, Truman represented one of the last great triumphs of old-fashioned politics, and McCullough's tome serves as a reminder of how well the system worked in the bad old days before reformers blessed the nation with openness and primaries. In one of the most vivid of this book's procession of vivid tales, McCullough recounts how the Democratic bosses and party elders -- led by Ed Flynn of the Bronx -- concluded in 1944 that Franklin Roosevelt was unlikely to survive another term and that the overly progressive Henry Wallace had to be dumped from the ticket. In the proverbial...
...academic interest culminated this year withher senior honors thesis, entitled "Access toFreedom," a 151-page tome on disability issues inJapan, focusing on the country's laws, attitudesand the educational system...
...mile twenty I met Jake Brederson. Fifty-four years old, this was his twentieth marathon. He ran it once and finished sixty-ninth with a tome of 3:38. That was thirty years ago when there were only two-hundred participants. The rest of his twenty he has walked. One time, his ride did not show up at the finish line, and he did not have any money to get home, so he started walking again...
...analysis of middens is emerging as a distinct scientific specialty. Its handful of practitioners have already published a 472-page tome on the subject (Packrat Middens; University of Arizona) and have considered naming the ! specialty paleonidology, which roughly translated means "study of old nests...
...policy, which outlawed all discriminationin housing, jobs and public accomodations,"provoked a right-wing fundamentalist challenge tome," the candidate says...