Word: archly
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Ranting has many styles, many purposes. Sometimes its only ambition is to vilify. Robert Burns once let fly at a critic in these terms: "Thou eunuch of language; thou butcher . . . thou arch-heretic in pronunciation, thou pitch-pipe of affected emphasis . . . thou pimp of gender . . . thou scape-gallows from the land of syntax." On and on he went...
...interstate highway bridges were closed. Property damage in the Virginias alone is expected to exceed half a billion dollars. "You could see the loss in people's eyes and hear it in people's voices," said a West Virginia ambulance worker. Governors Charles S. Robb of Virginia and Arch Moore of West Virginia called out their National Guards to discourage looting and to aid in rescue and cleanup efforts. President Reagan later declared that large portions of two states, West Virginia and Virginia, were disaster areas. CALIFORNIA The Illegal Millionaire...
...thought I might even manage to clear my mind for a moment of all things Vatican. Fat chance. Approaching from my left, I heard the discrete siren of a one-car police escort, with a dark sedan right behind. As the cars zipped around the curve and under an arch, I could see clearly that the escorted passenger was in fact Camillo Cardinal Ruini. This was not a dream. The powerful Italian Cardinal appeared to be alone, gazing out the car window in my direction. Having just concluded the morning General Congregation session at the Vatican, Ruini was no doubt...
...Richard Nixon sits in a low-back armchair, his legs crossed on an ottoman, his hands contributing to his account of the past 40 years of atomic diplomacy by drawing circles in the air, playing an absent piano, shooing away a wrong idea, coming together in an arch or making points in precise order: one, two, three, four. It is shortly after 8 a.m. Two mornings back to back he has been discussing the effects of Hiroshima on the world and on the presidency in his office in a federal building in downtown Manhattan. The building's air-conditioning system...
...ECAC championship game against arch-rival Dartmouth, Boe notched 36 saves—the best of her career to date. Her previous high came in Harvard’s loss to Minnesota, and so the new record marked an exorcism of sorts...