Word: vein
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...problems which crease the brows of the country’s politicians. Appearing on the BBC, Tony Blair, the British prime minister, and Jack Straw, the foreign minister, anxiously stress that the attacks are condemned by the many ordinary, decent Muslims who inhabit the country. In the same vein, the London newspapers profile a young Muslim Londoner who is believed to have died in the attacks—she is designated a “real East Ender” and “British to the core” as well as a Muslim “occasionally known...
During Reagan's term, both sides have shown a propensity for publicly unveiling sweeping new proposals on the eve of important talks, partly as propaganda. Gorbachev's latest gambit follows in this vein. It also follows in the thus far fruitless tradition of proclaiming the goal of total nuclear disarmament. But the goal is no less worthy than when Baruch spoke of the choice facing the world at the dawn of the atomic age 40 years...
...back to his roots. In The Historian, a humble academic and his child become caught up in a maze of mysterious documents that lead them to the original Dracula. Stuffed with rich, incense-laden cultural history and travelogue, The Historian is a smart, bibliophilic mystery in the same vein (sorry) as A.S. Byatt's Possession--but without all that poetry. --Lev Grossman
Complete with a vein and two large, well-defined testicles, the phallus rubbed campus feminists the wrong way. Amy E. Keel ’04 said she and her roommates destroyed the snow penis because “pornography is degrading to women and creates a violent atmosphere...
...Ronald Reagan tapped into a vein of conservative social populism that changed the G.O.P., and a series of effete intellectual candidacies-from Eugene McCarthy's to John Kerry's-has reflected the Democrats' transformation into a party dominated by well-educated coastal professionals. In the 2004 election, Bush beat Kerry among the white working class by some 24 points...