Word: coolingly
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...back. Over J-Term, I left with a much more permanent sense of departure, but also a curiosity for what’s next. After all, I’m going from a place that’s hella awesome to one I hope will be just as wicked cool...
...yeah, it’s cool, and it’s an accomplishment,” Clay continues, “but it’s just something that I’ve done, it?...
...from observations about local idiom. When a character drops the word “hogwash,” Tassie deadpans, “I had once seen a hog washed. In whey. The hog was Helen, and she really liked it, the slop of the whey, then later a cool hose.” Her constant language-play calls attention to the separate vernaculars of Troy and Dellacrosse. As a result, the novel establishes an unusual and rather negative role for language—that of a barrier in the way of communication...
Such a transformation seems, on the surface, improbable. The dispositions of these two executives could not be more dissimilar. Whereas TR was known for his vigor and zeal, Obama’s presidency is remarkable for its cool. But perhaps this is changing. In his recent meeting with House Republicans, Obama took fire from the opposition on a national broadcast and appeared, for the first time in a long time, to be the proverbial man in the arena, brow marred with sweat. The president systematically dismissed many Republican counterarguments as mere political posturing—something fresh, something promising...
...match that first took place on center court was the meeting between sophomore Nirasha Guruge and the Bantams’ Pamela Chua. Guruge had to battle her way through the first sets only to be halted in the second and third sets. Chua kept her cool, even after dropping the fourth game to a defiant but tired Guruge, and won the matchup in the fifth set, 9-11, 13-11, 11-9, 7-11, 11-7. This was the second day in a row that Guruge was forced to go to five games, but luck wasn?...