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«The highway is replete with culinary land mines disguised as quaint local restaurants that carry such reassuring names as Millie's, Pop's and Capt'n Dick's.»
Author: Bryan Miller
| About:
Cooking
| Keywords:
culinary, dick, disguised, highway, land mines, local, mines, pop, quaint, reassuring, replete, restaurants, the highway
«The grievances of which we complain, be assured, sir, are not imaginary, but real - not local, but universal - not occasional, but continual, everyday matter-of-fact things and have become, to the disgrace of our common country, matters of history.»
Author: Charles Lenox Remond
| About:
History
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assured, as a matter of fact, continual, disgrace, grievance, grievances, imaginary, local, occasional, sir
«The Old Testament is tribal in its provinciality; its god is a local god, and its village police and sanitary regulations are erected into eternal laws»
Author: John Macy
| About:
God,
Law and lawyers,
Religion
| Keywords:
erected, local, regulation, regulations, sanitary, testament, tribal, village
«There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den.»
Author: Morris Hite
| About:
Advertising,
Men and Women,
Newspapers,
Television
| Keywords:
den, local, newspaper
«There is a story that when incoming jets throttle back for the approach to Belfast's Aldergrove Airport, the pilots tell their passengers to put their watches back to local time - 1690»
«There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
assumes, blood relation, channel, clogged, clogging, disturbances, falsely, local, mystical, relation to, supernatural, unrelated
«The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| Keywords:
American culture, American System, Branded, fare, flavors, free of, fuel, gallons, highway, highway system, Howard, Howard Johnson, improved, isolated, Johnson, local, nationally, pilgrims, speedway, superhighway, superhighways, towns, transit, traverse, traversed, traversing
«The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.»
Author: Donald Rumsfeld
| Keywords:
Federal, federal government, governments, handled, last resort, local, local government, organizations, privately, program, resort, The Federal, The Last Resort, voluntary
«The Bishop was talking to the local Master of Hounds about the difficulty he had in keeping his vicars off the incense.»
«The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.»
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