Word: boyishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...volubly when another diner approaches. Gates pulls inward, used to people who want his autograph or to share some notion about computers. But the diner doesn't recognize him and instead asks him to keep his voice down. Gates apologizes sheepishly. He seems pleased to be regarded as a boyish cutup rather than a celebrity...
...acquiesces when I ask), Gates has an intensity and enthusiasm that can be engaging, even charming. He takes a piece of paper and draws the matrix of strategies he faced when creating applications to compete with WordPerfect and Lotus. See what an exciting puzzle it was? His language is boyish rather than belligerent. The right stuff is "really neat" and "supercool" and "hardcore," while bad strategies are "crummy" and "really dumb" and "random...
...search for evidence about the soul that underlies Bill Gates' intellectual operating system is a task that even this boyish man might find a challenge...
...David Ho doesn't look like a gambler. With his boyish face and slender build, he could more easily pass for a teenager than for a 44-year-old father of three--or, for that matter, for a world-renowned scientist. In fact, when he was an undergraduate at the California Institute of Technology back in the 1970s, Ho hung around the blackjack tables in Las Vegas, tilting the odds in his favor by memorizing each card as it was played. He got so good at counting cards that he was thrown out of several casinos...
...there is a tendency, even among respectable commentators, to treat the U.S. military's mushrooming sex-abuse scandals as a case of runaway hormones and boyish high jinks. WAR IS HELL, notes a New York Times headline, adding, wittily, SO IS REGULATING SEX. The article, which glides blithely from the topic of "relationships" to rape, quotes an Assistant Secretary of Defense explaining the debacle in terms of a "natural attraction between men and women." "Attraction?" "Sex?" Excuse me, fellows, but what goes on in your bedrooms...