Word: archness
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...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...
Three days have passed since the Harvard women’s basketball team pulled off an incomprehensible 15-point comeback to upset arch-rival Dartmouth in the Ivy League championship game and take a share of the league title...
...accused his protégé The Game of being disloyal and expelled him from the G-Unit posse during a live radio interview on Hot 97 in New York. Apparently Game wanted to perform with Nas, who drew 50’s ire for collaborating with his arch nemesis, Ja Rule...