Word: waved
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...Barack Obama, it will not be sufficient to simply play out the math, continuing to take his share of delegates as he loses high-profile contests. He may win the nomination that way, but he will lose his rationale: that he represents a dramatic, tidal wave of a movement for change. In fairness, Obama did raise his game in recent weeks. His pitch was more down-to-earth, substantive and specific in Texas and Ohio. But his TV cool requires a certain distance, and distance easily slides into remoteness. Sitting on a tractor in Texas on March 4, he didn...
Black was projecting the optimism of a campaign that is riding a remarkable two-month wave of good fortune. But eight months remain between now and the election, and that is a lot of time, even for a man like McCain, who seems to attract good fortune. As McCain put it himself on Tuesday night, "Nothing, nothing, nothing is inevitable in America." He knows well that the door of chance swings both ways. Indeed, midway through his victory speech Tuesday, McCain's teleprompter failed...
Despite Clinton's continued lead in the state polls, Obama is riding on a wave of grassroots enthusiasm, the likes of which political veterans say they have never seen before. Until late February, neither candidate had much of an organization in the state - a handful of junior staffers but no more. But without prompting from the national campaign, dozens of self-generated Obama organizations have sprung up around the state in recent months, drawing in thousands of supporters. "The brilliance of the Obama campaign is that it is very organic," said Dan Wofford, an Obama supporter and son of former...
...Read that again—it’s also one of the only statements in the piece that’s definitely true.The article, which graced the front page of the Times’ sports section on Sunday and has since sparked a minor wave of incredulous columnists and bloggers weighing in, is titled “In a New Era at Harvard, New Questions of Standards.” The headline refers to the program’s recruiting standards—“Harvard’s new approach could tarnish the university?...
...they break elements into pieces, bind up the world, contract it into hard little pellets of perception.” The fact that the narrator is using words in the first place to tell his story is only addressed in the last paragraph, as a kind of apologetic wave to the form that had to be adopted in order to relate these events. Similarly, Millhauser faces the difficulty of expressing the absurd and the magical with the words of pedestian reality: it is difficult to keep the awkwardness of language’s inherent inadequacy from permeating his narration...