Word: virginian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...preparing the special report, McGeary called on a variety of talents at the magazine, including those of our nine-person Moscow staff. Correspondent James Carney, a native Virginian and Russian studies major at Yale, focused on two of his specialties: the nascent Baltic nations and Russia's hard-line conservatives. Reporter Ann Simmons, a British subject with a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, spent time with a working-class family to profile its desperate struggle to afford life's necessities...
...preferred not to remember. Today it might be called a character issue that Lincoln told racist and obscene stories to make a point among his none too delicate peers. One man who served with Lincoln in Congress reminded him, in a letter, of Lincoln's "story of the old Virginian stropping his razor on a certain member of a young Negro's body...
...with a constant sense of doom, an anguishing irrational certainty that this virus will someday, somehow, come to get them too. "It's always in the back of my mind, except when it's in the front of my mind," says Mark Mobley, an arts critic at the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. "Whenever you are in a room with someone, the question is always there: Is AIDS in the room with...
...stops at this or That great Virginian's house were peripheral. More essential to my visit were the stops at the gift shops and restaurants where I could restock and expand my collection of colonial paraphernalia...
...Virginian, whether by birth, marriage or even on one's mother's side is...a benediction from Almighty...