Word: childishly
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...seemed very daunting, but once she had said it, it seemed childish to refuse,” recalled Mirsky, who was reporting for The Observer of London...
...mostly likely intended to downplay the value of her archive. Mallory said the University thoroughly examined her archive before making the final purchase. “I don’t think Harvard is vindictive,” Mallory said. “That’s childish.” —Staff Writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
...didn't answer your e-mail, I'm sorry. If the check was late or the amount less than agreed on, please forgive me. If I shut my office door, turned off the lights and hid under the desk when I heard you coming, I deeply regret such childish behavior...
...never saw the Canton Bulldogs or the Decatur Staleys play professional football. I don't care what anyone thinks; I'm not that old. But I did grow up in Wisconsin, where the last of the small town teams, the Green Bay Packers, claimed my childish heart and, to this day, my aging one. Romantically - and doubtless erroneously - I continue to believe that today's insanely well-paid Packers (representing a franchise worth hundreds of millions) have some near-mystical connection with pro-football's prehistoric days, when, if the players were lucky, they might get fifty or a hundred...
...loving flyer, indifferent to the hazards of his profession, calm and stoic when the adrenaline flowed, fatalistic about life-and-death situations," McCain explained in Pensacola. "In truth, the image I aspired to was, in the end, only irresistible to one person - me, and it was a very childish attraction...