Word: condign
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...Broder claims he is not nostalgic for the giant Arkansas watermelon; for his sticky insincerities; the wet, lip-biting flow of his poignancies. But still Broder senses some "odd silence at the center of the city," as if a condign presidential music were missing, as if we were entitled to a fireside chat and were not hearing...
...Gore greeted the GOP's Manchurian ploy with all condign solemnity. He gravely pronounced himself "very disappointed" in George W. Bush. I suppose it would have been too much to expect Gore to greet the rat story with the snorting hilarity it deserved...
Would he criticize an erring colleague? "I shall," Dirksen would promise, in a voice like the finest whiskey aged in fog, "invoke upon him every condign imprecation." Dirksen was especially toothsome when praising the fig newton, manufactured in Illinois. "A man who has not sunk a molar into a fig newton," Dirksen would announce, his gray-golden ringlets vibrating with emotion, "has let much of life pass...