shortest

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Campaign biographies, even those, such as Pete Buttigieg’s “The Shortest Way Home,” that were actually written by the candidate, are even less inviting and less inspiring.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2020

“The Shortest Day,” like “Home in the Woods,” rejects the too-simple binary of death equals bad, life equals good.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2019

Only six of the 112 copies of The Truths We Hold available at the Los Angeles Public Library are currently in use, fewer than a quarter of L.A.’s demand for Mayor Pete’s Shortest Way Home.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2019

On other fronts, Hillary Frank, creator of the parenting podcast “The Longest Shortest Time,” this winter debuts her book on child-rearing hacks, “Weird Parenting Wins.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 16, 2018

Brinker Hadley could compose his Shortest War Poem Ever Written The War Is a bore if he wanted to, but all of us had to take stronger action than that.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles