Word: lumping
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...does not mean we agree on most things. In fact, there are times when we simply do not agree at all. For example, I am a Southerner who grew up in an evangelistic Baptist home, whereas Cheryl is from San Diego and was raised in a Catholic setting. To lump us together because of our physical appearances is the heart of prejudice. It denies our being as individuals...
...fact that the carmaker had won possession again of the family mansion on Grosse Pointe's Lakeshore Drive that he moved out of on Dec. 23, 1975. But Detroiters figured the E.P.A. (for estimated percentage of Henry's assets) rating at 18%, meaning a cool $15 million lump sum for the ex-Mrs. Ford from her ex-husband's $85 million or so fortune...
...National Park Service last October, hundreds flocked in every weekend. In Nevada, U.S. Forest Service wood collection permits that once were free now cost $3.50; in California, they go for as much as $20. As one sturdy New Jersey wood scrounger put it, "Every log burned is a lump of caviar extracted from the mouth of an Arab...
Goodman can raise a lump in the throat, writing movingly about a workaholic who dies at 51, a faded flower child of the '60s, or women who outlive their husbands. She can elicit a hearty chuckle by recounting how she lavished "time, money, attention and great expectations on four of the only all-male zucchini plants to exist in the memory of my county Agricultural Extension Service." Her feminism is sharp but not strident. When the Supreme Court limited state-financed abortions, she imagined Justice Lewis Powell "barefoot and pregnant" and offered him "a slightly salted wafer to appease...
Saken said the audit did not take into account that the funds had been loaned over a seven-year period and not in one lump...