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2024年4月14日 星期日
roll call, malady, gout. The roll call of famous gout sufferers is long and distinguished. Undergarments for the Ultrawealthy
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The roll call of famous gout sufferers is long and distinguished. It includes Ben Franklin, Henry James and Karl Marx.
So, it has come to this. It’s official. My doctor has confirmed what I had suspected for some time, that despite some “nonstandard presentation” and my solid belief that this sort of thing happens only to other people, I have gout. I am a member of that shadowy, shameful group, the “gout community.”
The Republican Party officially nominated John McCain to be the GOP's presidential candidate last night. But that was hardly the highlight at the Republican Convention, where delegates were "riveted less on the foregone conclusion of the roll call vote than on the national, prime-time debut of his running mate," notes USA Today.
Despite all the careful planning, the New York Timespoints out that Democrats weren't eager to draw "attention to the lingering resentments between Clinton and Obama delegates" and it was the "first time in at least 50 years that Democrats have not scheduled their roll call on prime-time television."
The reading aloud of a list of names of people, as in a classroom or military post, to determine who is present or absent.
The time fixed for such a reading.
roll call n.
The reading aloud of a list of names of people, as in a classroom or military post, to determine who is present or absent.
The time fixed for such a reading.
Roll-call votes require a formal record of the presence and vote or abstention of each member of a legislature, traditionally by calling out each name, but increasingly through the use of electronic recording devices. Roll-call analysis seeks to identify voting blocs within legislatures where partisanship is a poor predictor of voting behaviour.
An unwholesome condition: the malady of discontent.
[Middle English maladie, from Old French, from malade, sick, from Latin male habitus, in poor condition : male, badly + habitus, past participle of habēre, to hold.]
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