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In roily times like these, voters tend to look for strength in candidates — not wishy-washy politicians trying have it both ways and not offend anyone.

But it is too long and roily for Calvin to manage alone.

The one lavatory was surrounded by a moat of urine, and we would race, as ships, bottle tops on its roily and reeking waters, rowing with our fingers.

Then the Sioux plunged their feverish faces into the roily water and drank as eagerly as the ponies.

But the buckskin mare, with her master, far in advance of the twenty others, was already plunging down the bank and into a black, roily whirl.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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