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A recent poll in Germany found that 44 percent of respondents said migration and refugees are the country’s most pressing problem, and about 77 percent said Germany needed a change in its policies.

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Cellist Jacqueline du Pré was born #onthisday in 1945. Largely considered one of the most distinctive cellists of the twentieth century, du Pré was known for her physicality and emotionally charged performances.

Live Updates: Candidates Barnstorm Key States

By JONATHAN MARTIN

• With more than 33 million Americans already having voted as of Friday, Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump will use the final Saturday before the election to make their closing arguments, starting in Florida.

Japan and South Korea can work together to wash away the pains of the past

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Ogata Sadako is a former president of JapanInternational Cooperation Agency and was the United Nations high commissioner for refugees from 1991 ...

Washington Largely Aloof and Ambivalent on Egypt Crisis

By PETER BAKER

A relatively muted White House reaction to the turmoil reflects both mixed feelings about President Mohamed Morsi’s ouster and Egypt’s shrinking role in American policy.

Manmohan extends Japan trip, sends a strong message to China Economic Times Japan and China are witnessing deep hostility over the Senkaku islands (called Diaoyu by the Chinese) with its nationalist PM Shinzo Abe, often also described as a hawk, threatening to respond physically should the Chinese try to land in the contested ...

barnstorm
to travel to different places to give speeches, perform shows, etc. 

Forget Aloof, Bernanke Goes Barnstorming
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
The chairman of the Federal Reserve is on a campaign to prove that the central bank is here to help, and is not as mysterious as people might think.

barnstormingadj. - 鄉間巡迴演說家或藝人的
日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 国中を演説や演技をして

快速巡迴各地政治演說

aloof
adj.
Distant physically or emotionally; reserved and remote: stood apart with aloof dignity.
adv.
At a distance but within view; apart.

[A–² + LUFF, windward part of a ship (obsolete).]

aloofly a·loof'ly adv.
aloofness a·loof'ness n.

Definition of aloof

adjective

• not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant:they were courteous but faintly aloof an aloof and somewhat austere figure
• conspicuously uninvolved and uninterested, typically through distaste:he stayed aloof from the bickering

Derivatives

aloofly

adverb

aloofness

noun

Origin:

mid 16th century: from a-² (expressing direction) + luff. The term was originally an adverb in nautical use, meaning 'away and to windward!', i.e., with the ship's head kept close to the wind away from a lee shore, etc., toward which it might otherwise drift. From this arose the sense 'at a distance' literally or figuratively

physical

Pronunciation: /ˈfɪzɪk(ə)l/

Definition of physical

adjective

• 1relating to the body as opposed to the mind:a range of physical and mental challenges
• involving bodily contact or activity:less physical sports such as bowls a physical relationship

• 2relating to things perceived through the senses as opposed to the mind; tangible or concrete:the physical world

• 3relating to physics or the operation of natural forces generally:physical laws

noun

• 1 (also physical examination) a medical examination to determine a person’s bodily fitness: at fifty-something, each year’s physical was a kind of lottery

• 2 (physicals) Stock Exchange stocks held in actual commodities for immediate exchange, for example as opposed to futures: the exchange of futures for physicals

Phrases

get physical

• 1 informal become aggressive or violent: now the players are even getting physical with the refs

• 2become sexually intimate with someone: I had a strong feeling that, by the end of the day, she and I would get physical

Derivatives

physicality

Pronunciation: /-ˈkalɪti/

noun

physically

adverb

physicalness

noun

Origin:

late Middle English (in the sense 'relating to medicine'): from medieval Latin physicalis, from Latin physica 'things relating to nature' (see physic). Sense 2 dates from the late 16th century and sense 1 from the late 18th century