Word: virginia
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...example, more than 15 months in Virginia. And Oregon's crime rate has remained steady during the climb elsewhere...
...country," as John Adams used that phrase in 1774, was Massachusetts, and he called his colony's delegation in Congress "our embassy." For Jefferson, until much later, "my country" usually meant Virginia. The decisive resolution (introduced in the Continental Congress on June 7, 1776, by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, seconded by John Adams and adopted on July 2, 1776) that provided the occasion for the Declaration of Independence declared "That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States." Even until the Civil War the nation was commonly described in the plural...
...Independence and wrote the federal Constitution doubted that a representative government could decently and efficiently rule a large area. The excesses and failures of the British Parliament in its effort to govern the colonies seemed an obvious illustration. When Patrick Henry argued against ratifying the federal Constitution in the Virginia Convention (June 9,1788), he called for a single example of a great extent of country governed by one Congress. "One government," he insisted, "cannot reign over so extensive a country as this is, without absolute despotism." Americans were fighting against the evils of being governed at a distance...
...thus puts a premium on mail expertise and mailing lists. Wallace has hired Richard A. Viguerie, a Virginia professional fund raiser who has effectively served such controversial clients as the National Rifle Association, the Rev. Billy James Hargis and South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond. He has steadily refined old Wallace mailing lists, adding such groups as the nation's policemen and subscribers to the Saturday Evening Post and the National Review. He has developed a list of 2.5 million "favorable supporters," at least 300,000 of whom he feels confident can be relied on for money. According to Wallace...
Emmylou is the daughter of a career Marine family. She grew up in Virginia, worked hard at school and was considered a "real prig." Says she: "High schools are real hip now, but there was no counterculture in Woodbridge, Va. in 1963. You were either a homecoming queen or a real weirdo. I was a 16-year-old Wasp wanting to quit school and become Woody Guthrie." She entered the University of North Carolina in 1965 on a dramatic scholarship. "It was a time when the golden girls got married to med students," she recalls. More fearful of regimentation than...