Word: turn
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Sandel and Kennedy noted that Clinton was particularly interested in the similarities between the nation at the turn of the century and today...
...these reasons that a concept like "Harvard Students First" worries me. For those unfamiliar with the term, it is a slogan that originated in the Undergraduate Council two years ago to challenge the political turn the council took under the leadership of Robert M. Hyman '98 and Lamelle D. Rawlins '99. "Harvard Students First" means exactly what it says: that the main concern of Harvard students should be problems that solely affect Harvard students...
...senator criticized Totenberg's reporting and Totenberg in turn said Simpson's tactics smacked of McCarthyism...
That power is visible on nearly every page of Paradise. Morrison's prose remains the marvel that it was in her earlier novels, a melange of high literary rhetoric and plain talk. She can turn pecan shelling into poetry: "the tick of nut meat tossed in the bowl, cooking utensils in eternal adjustment, insect whisper, the argue of long grass, the faraway cough of cornstalks." She captures the stark geography surrounding Ruby: "This land is flat as a hoof, open as a baby's mouth." And she builds Ruby practically brick by brick: its streets (named after the four Gospels...
...selling tie-top hats on the streets of New York City. The hats caught on, so he drew up some ideas for coats and shirts and asked his mom to teach him to sew. Then she remortgaged their house for $100,000, gave him the money and let him turn the place into a mini-factory. He has a really nice...