Word: welter
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This statement lacks the demonstrable authenticity that appears so consistently in all of Dubus' fiction, including the stories in this book. Abstract critiques of U.S. society seem puny amid the welter of details and telling observations that the author provides. In Molly, the title character, a 15-year-old girl, goes riding with her new boyfriend toward a beach on the Atlantic. She looks out the window at a succession of small, working-class houses: "In the faces of a group of teenagers who stood under a tree and watched her and Bruce passing, she saw a dullness she thought...
Because the potential delegates are not yet formally pledged, there was a welter of claims about who had turned out the most loyalists. The Robertson people estimated they garnered some 4,500. Bush claimed about the same number, while the Kemp camp claimed more than 3,700. Though a little arithmetic reveals that somebody is exaggerating, Robertson clearly prevented Bush from establishing himself as an unrivaled front runner and prevented Kemp from making the race a two-person contest. Said James Killeen, clerk of Michigan's Wayne County: "When a person of Robertson's newcomer status is able to best...
...fighting terrorism, the summit closed on the same raucous note that marred its opening: Japanese radicals seeking to sabotage the proceedings descended on subway and train stations with smoke bombs packed with firecrackers, crippling rush-hour traffic, but claiming no casualties, in a city turning weary under a welter of unprecedented security restrictions...
...liberally indeed. One shot shows Party Secretary Arnoud Cevaal, 37, sitting on one of the classic green benches inside the stately parliamentary assembly hall in the Hague. But Cevaal's mind is clearly not on affairs of state, since his hand is busy exploring the bared behind of Lorette Welter, 30, personal assistant to a Liberal member of parliament. In the pages that follow, Cevaal and Welter are shown showering, bubble-bathing and sleeping together in the altogether. When an affronted parliamentary chairman demanded an explanation, the gladhanding lovers turned suddenly cool. Welter said that she merely wished "to give...
...welter of offerings can leave many consumers befuddled. IRA ads often bristle with hype or technical jargon. Says Donald Underwood, vice president of retirement planning at Merrill Lynch, which holds 1.4 million IRAs: "Consumers are overwhelmed by the variety because there's a lot of smoke out there. They have to do their homework...