For the first time, the editors of the acclaimed American Heritage(R) Dictionary have applied their efforts to word usage as its own subject. The result is this

The history of the United States has been characterized by ferventidealism, intense struggle, and radical change. And for everycritical, defining moment in Amer

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America's story is made up of many elements, but through it have coursed two main streams that have nourished and carried a people forward to a destiny that was