Word: torical
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This 180-degree turn reflects desperation. Since the rebirth of democracy some 50 years ago, no German government has sought refuge in nationalist, let alone anti-American, rhe-toric. Even the Chirac government is (very) quietly signaling Washington that it would go along in a war against Iraq - if also for the self-serving reason of being at the table where the spoils of victory would be distributed. To have a hand in the postwar reorganization of Iraq also explains Britain's judiciously rationed support for an attack. Tony Blair is not George W.'s "poodle," as his domestic critics...
...time Shcharansky seemed an improbable candidate for the his toric role he was destined to play...
Selzer, a faculty member at the Yale University Medical School, can be entertaining, even whimsical, when he discusses baldness or Homo sapiens' his toric love affair with alcohol. But there is no drollery in his discussions of life's end. Like a man describing an old colleague, Selzer watches death at work. "You do not die all at once," observes the surgeon. "Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus . . . There are outposts where clusters of cells yet shine, besieged, little lights blinking...
...eminence, the authors write: "History was for him, as for Carlyle, a worship and rosary of heroes, especially those who guided na tions or molded empires. He loved Plutarch even more than Euclid; he breathed the passions of those ancient patriots, he drank the blood of those his toric battles...
...proposals. "The ultimate token of approval," he said with rueful satisfaction, "is that the Democrats and Republicans have stolen my thunder." Son of a Presbyterian minister, valedictorian of Princeton's class of 1905, six times Socialist candidate for President of the U.S., Norman Mattoon Thomas made an his toric mark. He died in his sleep last week in a Long Island nursing home...