Word: wading
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...once, Cambridge's cynics have been proven wrong. Before these cynics can be shown the door, however, it must to be noted that most walkers brazenly wade into traffic without regard for traffic signals or crosswalk buttons. Of course this isn't all that surprising. After all, who has time for walk signals in a war zone...
Consider a student leaving the Yard at Widener Gate. He must wade through a sea of slush on each side of Mass. Ave. Having reached the side-walk, he heads for the river. Part way down Plympton St., he finds himself in a canyon four feet deep. The snow has not been shoveled or plowed; he has to walk on a tiny strip of packed snow and slush. The sidewalk is nowhere to be seen. Two people can't pass unless one scales the snowbank and perches on a parking meter...
...writing his life story. Late in this novel, Ira taps out some musings on his own literary approach: "Best thing he could do -- maybe -- would be to excerpt sundry articles, dispatches, editorials from, say, the New York Times, and let it go at that, let the reader wade through the sociopolitical spate of happenings of the century's second decade in the appropriate studies of the period, and for his own impression." Then he adds: "Lazy man's way, way of default and ineptitude...
Further, records and interviews with Chris Wade, the real estate agent who sold the lots for the Clintons and McDougals and ended up buying much of the , land from them, indicate that Whitewater over the years took in around $270,250. Wade claims that Whitewater spent $40,000 on improvements like roads, and carrying costs on the land may have eaten up much of the rest. But it is hard to see how the Clintons' half-share could have resulted in a loss of anything like $69,000. McDougal has told the Associated Press that he thought their cash investment...
While the President wants abortion covered in his health-care reform bill, he is also an ardent champion of states' prerogatives. "I've always been ambivalent on the federal-funding issue," Clinton told me in January 1991. "All Roe v. Wade said is that the government shall not take a position on abortion. ((The Supreme Court)) guaranteed the right to have one but didn't get into money matters. Many people view abortion as murder, and even many who don't are against their tax dollars' being used to finance it, regardless of the circumstances. The fact is, there...