Word: bookworm
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...blokey caricature. It's true he's distinctly of his class, neighborhood and generation. But he has been brilliant and relentless, rather than lucky and knockabout, in his political career - which started the day he joined the Labor party as a boy. He's a striver and a bookworm who's never had a brush with cool...
...process. Keep the guards to check IDs and search the occasional student who sets off the CVS-style anti-shoplifting buzzers. And we should stop there. No more useless bag checks, no more wasted time. Just keep those CVS buzzers up and running to catch the occasional over-avid bookworm. After all, if they’re good enough to stop shoplifters, they’re good enough to keep the best and the brightest from pilfering a few books...
...weekend! I ask teammates when we’re throwing that party where we only invite athletes and keep out the bookworm Lamont-bound students. Quizzical looks all around, followed by isolation...
Even before he abruptly quit professional basketball, Bison Dele was a 6-ft. 10-in. enigma. He was powerful on the basketball court, but off it he was reserved. He loved skydiving, but he was also a bookworm who spent hours poring over art and philosophy texts. He earned millions but was known to arrive at work on a skateboard. And in 1998 he changed his given name, Brian Williams, to Bison Dele, as a tribute to his Native American and African ancestors...
...never the brightest boy, not even in his family. His mother Zohra predicted grand futures for his bookworm elder brother Javed, a Rhodes scholar who works at the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, and younger brother Naved, an anesthesiologist in Chicago. Hearty Pervez, she decreed, should be a soldier. "For all of us," Musharraf says today, "she selected the right profession." (Zohra still lives with Musharraf and breakfasts with him most days, reading headlines aloud and making sure he doesn't seem overly stressed. "She sees me off in the morning," the President says...