Word: unread
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...simple. At times like these distance, and not direction, is my downfall. I find it nearly impossible to walk purposely past telescoping rows of books, leaving them all untouched, unread, unopened. (Glimpses of Portuguese periodicals, Byzantine manuscripts, journals of learned societies and "Iron Maze: Western Intelligence v. the Bolsheviks...
...line: Those 10,000 votes aren't votes at all, but merely "non-votes," since they went unread by the vote-counting machines. They represent only 1.6 percent of the total votes cast in the county, a lower percentage than in 34 Florida counties, not to mention in plenty of other places nationwide. "Not every person that comes to an election" votes for president, insisted Terrell. "When they say these votes are votes, they're wrong...
...manual recount to be included in the total. But in the absence of anything that compelling, it was up to her. (This one appeared not to sit well with Justice Peggy Quince, who seemed to grasp the Democratic argument that a hanging-chad ballot could pass through the machine unread without it really being "machine error" - but was still a vote deserving of tabulation...
...remind me why I took that class. Am I stuck in a huge morass? Or did the CUE Guide say I could pass? Now the Lamont air was filled with stress as students crammed under duress. We wanted to go to bed, but there were ten books yet unread. And as we tried to learn ID's, to avoid earning dreaded C's, we cursed students who were at ease the day midterms arrived...
...another. Amusing your friends is easy; making strangers laugh is tough. The Lampoon's Guide to College Admissions will be sold to thousands of people whose names they have never heard. Will there be enough genuine humor nuggets mixed in with the inside jokes to keep these unread proles laughing? For once, the answer is probably yes --they got through all 165 pages without even one mention of Maxwell's Demon. If this parody is a harbinger of changes to come, then maybe the Lampoon has decided to start slowly weaning itself from the obscure and self-referential gibberish most...