Word: cents
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...narrator's teacher praises a simple yet effecting essay written by a country boy, while the citified narrator is chagrined by thoughts of his own, which "had been full of long or strange words [he] had found in the dictionary." Although Deane himself uses a sufficient number of twentyfive-cent words to be considered a "literary" author, for whatever that's worth, his style is as down-to-earth as any country boy's. His lovely prose reads effortlessly. Another writer would drown such a tenuous, fragile plot with the dense description Deane favors, but Deane makes observations like...
...accept a humanitarian award, to Berlin for interviews with German television and to Auschwitz for a weekend as the guest of survivors. His story was even optioned by a would-be Hollywood dealmaker but, far from profiting, Meili discovered he had signed away his movie rights "without getting a cent" up front. As Andrew Decter, a New Jersey insurance broker who has taken the Meilis under his wing, explains, "He got starstruck, and we had to bring him back down to earth...
...travel to various tax havens such as Switzerland and Monaco, where it is suspected he keeps secret bank accounts. Dumas adamantly denies all allegations--and even claims to have repaid the cost of the boots. In an interview last March, he declared he had "never received a cent" from the Taiwan contract and never wavered in his opposition to the sale...
...think that legendary $640 toilet seat back in the ?80s would have taught the Pentagon to be smart shoppers. Not so, according to a Pentagon audit released today, which revealed that in the last two years the military had paid $76 for a 57-cent screw, $714 for a $47 electrical bell, and more...
...five undergraduates with "aid packages" consisting solely of loans and jobs should be insulted by Knowles' estimation of their intelligence. This so-called aid doesn't cost Harvard one crimson cent. To paraphrase a masterfully-written University statement, Knowles is a skilled storyteller. However, much of his version of the particulars surrounding student aid packages is at odd with the facts--facts those at Princeton, Yale and Stanford seem to understand just fine...