Word: characterize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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We meet Freeman Dyson as a nine-year-old child poring over--not Einstein's differential equations--but Edith Nesbit's utopia. This introduction is true to character. Dyson is not just a physicist; he's a romantic, a humanist and an optimist.
How difficult it will be for anyone, Democrat or Republican, to campaign against Ted Kennedy! It just wouldn't be sporting to mention honor, courage, truth, fidelity, economy-mindedness, coverup, character, cheating, special privileges, confusion, irrationality or even such ordinary phrases as "crossing that bridge when we come to...
(10 of 11) the Shah's character and what his monarchy brought to Iran can never be resolved to the satisfaction of all parties. But many diplomats throughout the world would agree that, as a starting point in settling the current crisis, it would be fortunate if the Shah should...
Goaltender Wade Lau, who stopped 34 of 36 shots on the night, credited "collective hustle" for this season's auspicious start. "Last year," he said, "we lacked character as a unit. Now we have it and it shows on the ice."
Both Kennedy and Connally declare the election issue in 1980 to be something as nebulous as "leadership." If, instead, the issue were to be defined just as intangibly as "character" in the candidate, would either Kennedy or Connally be so eager to make a campaign issue of it? (On many...