Vocab 10 List 3

“How our two nations — former adversaries — cannot just become partners, but become the best of friends and the strongest of allies.” MSNBC (May 26, 2016)

By basing so much of his campaign on racial animus, Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to alienate voters from minority communities. MSNBC (May 30, 2016)

It’s only recently that pro wrestling itself was willing to take that sort of step, to acknowledge its own artifice. New York Times (May 26, 2016)

“To forbid something is to make it unforgettable . . . to coerce attention and to guarantee interest,” Phillips writes. Washington Post (May 23, 2016)

He has exposed giant chunks of the press corps as craven and pathetic. Slate (May 18, 2016)

Throughout the country, for the duration of the culinary craze, headlines about “tamale wars” were comically abundant. The New Yorker (May 29, 2016)

First, the overuse of industrial pesticides contributed to the demise of cotton and wheat industries. The Guardian (May 24, 2016)

And behind the scenes, what unfolded was just as exhilarating. New York Times (May 27, 2016)

The town receded and a farm sprang up on either side of the tree- lined road, its fields fallow and bare. Hollow City

Journalists who dug into the wealth of the Aliyevs and their powerful allies found themselves harassed and imprisoned. Washington Post (May 29, 2016)

Earlier in the day, inclement weather forced a long delay. Golf Digest (May 20, 2016)

The billionaire even mused about moving to the state to run for governor himself. Washington Post (May 24, 2016)

But this season, it was 14 games better, which is almost negligible in a season of 1,230 games.  Washington Post (May 21, 2016)

She said the visit suggested that the president believes “the greatest generation was perpetuating the evil of World War II.” Washington Post (May 26, 2016)

For reasons of procedure and precedent, Tommy was not freed, and his owner subsequently moved him to another state. Salon (May 27, 2016)

This punitive act, meant to make the U.S. less hospitable to the undocumented, actually put the entire nation’s health at risk. Salon (May 30, 2016)

Returning ancestral human remains, sacred artifacts and special objects considered to hold collective cultural value attempts to serve as partial redress for these problematic histories. Time (May 19, 2016)

She’s an academic, so the Tahiti trip corresponds with her annual sojourn. Slate (May 17, 2016)

Lingering at the table had long been discarded as a ritual among the urbane. New York Times (May 12, 2016)

Officials say the Seattle-based company, which operates three processing plants in Alaska, will liquidate under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code. Washington Times (May 29, 2016)