Word: bookishness
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...when the Nazis occupied his hometown in Ukraine, raised another family in the U.S. but was so saddened by America's role in Vietnam that he killed himself at 87. And there's Aunt Lily, the clan's career woman, who sold lingerie door to door and married a bookish man, suspect in the family because he "seemed to have no politics...
...Kimball Brace, the founder and president of tiny Election Data Services, shambled up to the witness stand of Judge Sanders Sauls' Leon County omnibus hearing-for-the-presidency, bespectacled and bookish, grayed and shaggy - like Pat Caddell's older and even geekier brother. A political scientist by education and a demographer (sort of) by trade, he's also been looking in on the election offices and voting booths of this great nation for 25 years. He'd even brought his own Votomatic, just like they use in Palm Beach, which he'd owned since the '70s. And after a meticulous...
Growing up, I tried to be a humble Yankees fan, preferring the yeoman efforts of Willie Randolph to the braggadocio of Reggie Jackson. I had a terrific vocabulary as a kid. The Yankees gave me confidence that I sorely needed as a bookish, freakishly shy child who was secretly desired by all the girls in his class...
...what made Kostunica the perfect candidate now was what he was not. He was a humble, bookish scholar, not a brash firebrand pol. He was a vigorous nationalist, not an ethnic killer. He subscribed to multiparty democracy and market economics but never kowtowed to the West. He wanted to end confrontation with Europe and the U.S. but harshly condemned NATO's air war and slammed Washington's aggressive support for the Serbian opposition this past year as "the kiss of death." He vowed not to deliver Milosevic to the Hague, calling the war-crimes tribunal an illegitimate instrument...
...Doctor Know is very happy to hear that your self-confidence is tippy tops. But why hoard all the bookish brains for yourself? Spread your peanut butter and jelly around and teach the children to follow. They will grow and flourish under your mentoring...