A great tide is stirring, apparently.
The people embraced London 2012 with a spontaneity that swelled like a great tide.
ALLAHABAD, India — The pilgrims came, millions upon millions of them, in the greatest tide of humanity ever seen.
He papered the walls with images, like a great tide of the sea coming in and covering everything.
For decades this warren of streets and alleyways was a haven of cheap food and lodging for the great tide of unwashed European and American budget travelers.
But still, amid last week's great tide of tributes, friends of Charles Kennedy may be allowed one last question: where does journalism stop, and cruelty begin?
At this point the cream has broken and tiny particles of butter dance in a great tide of liquid known as buttermilk.
One was Hilda Grieve, an archivist in the Essex Record Office, who for her book The Great Tide tracked the tide, hour by hour, as it came down the coast, and drew on a vast collection of witness statements.
Can this great tide really be reversed just by raising gas taxes and easing urban building codes, or should we figure that sprawl is here to stay, and focus on managing it better?
So it did not go unnoticed this week when the Communist Party — desperate to shore up its eroding credibility with the public — made a move to brush back at least some of the great tide of wasted words.
