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The baby boomers who inherited the divorce laws the World War II generation loosened have in recent years begun to contemplate tightening them again.
And he pleaded to the editor, "Take me away from here, to a realm of high thoughts and charmed vistas, where I may contemplate matters more lovely than special prosecutors and nuclear proliferation.
Names of apples like cleopatra and democrat, of potatoes like bintje, black derwent, and kennebec, carry a Tasmanian stamp (in Australia at any rate), as does the mutton bird (the shearwater, Puffinus tenuirostris )—which has given Tasmanian English the verb mutton bird or in its abbreviated form bird, as well as lexical oddities like dizz (`cook a mutton bird') for those foolhardy enough to contemplate such a feat.
The question pundits are too coarse to contemplate is whether there's a zone between passive innocence and active manipulation.
(Chatterbox is not so fin de siècle as to contemplate that this president would take office as Roosevelt did--succeeding a predecessor who dies in office.)