Word: boyish
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...Battered-wife syndrome is now a part of the cultural discourse. What falls outside the new boundaries between the two realms? Is the proliferation of hundreds of Facebook.com groups, for example, solely created to mock “Dumb Bitches” (DBs for short) merely a series of boyish pranks, or do they represent a societally constructed pattern of ways men relate to women who displease them...
...leading candidate to replace Ricke is Rene Obermann, the boyish CEO of T-Mobile, Telekom's fast-growing international mobile phone unit and the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. Obermann is the candidate preferred by the German government and labor representatives on the supervisory board. But there is some opposition to Obermann's appointment by investors and supervisory board members, who would rather see an outside executive with international experience...
...part of a Democratic Party in the state that has been involved in numerous corruption scandals. Menendez, a longtime member of the House who was appointed to this Senate seat earlier this year after his predecessor Jon Corzine became New Jersey Governor, has also tried to cast the boyish-looking Kean, who has been in New Jersey state legislature since 2001, as too inexperienced for the job. If Kean wins, it will be very difficult for the Democrats to win control of the Senate...
Looking as boyish as a silver-haired 54-year-old can, Bob Corker admits in one of his latest television ads that he isn't "as good-looking" as his opponent Harold Ford Jr. For his part, Ford says in his own ad (with a grin) that if he owned a dog, Corker "would kick...
...Well, now he's had one for the 40-plus years of his Python fame. Idle remains the most boyish of the group, with a sense of humor unabashedly adolescent, both pleasing and easy to please. His love of verbal play is so intense it seems like a bright boy's first passion at discovering the worlds in words - the alternate, funhouse universes that language could create. Sometimes that ardor lasts a lifetime; it did for Joyce and Nabokov. Not that Idle is at their rarefied level, but his word-joy was from the beginning, and remains, infectious...