Word: crisped
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...last January and addressed a citizenry with differences so deep that sometimes, he said, "it seems we share a continent but not a country." George W. Bush's promise to restore honor to the office could not be kept just by wearing his tie every day or learning a crisp salute. A leap of faith is not something that can be faked or borrowed or bought. A man who always said he trusted his team would have to trust himself even more; a man with no use for alliances would have to build the biggest, unlikeliest one ever. And when...
...last January and addressed a citizenry with differences so deep that sometimes, he said, "it seems we share a continent but not a country." George W. Bush's promise to restore honor to the office could not be kept just by wearing his tie every day or learning a crisp salute. A leap of faith is not something that can be faked or borrowed or bought. A man who always said he trusted his team would have to trust himself even more; a man with no use for alliances would have to build the biggest, unlikeliest one ever. And when...
Ulrich’s gifts as a writer become evident as she delves into the shapes, textures and stories of her 11 objects. Her clean, crisp prose and scholarly bent do not obscure, but rather enhance her delight in her subjects. We delight as well. Part history lesson, part jigsaw puzzle, The Age of Homespun spins yarns about colonial life and the people who lived it from the most ordinary of jumping-off points. For example, the Indian basket demonstrates new contact between English settlers and Algonkians in what is now Providence, R.I. and the subsequent blending of the cultures?...
...biggest problem has been turnovers—we are making 20-some a game,” said captain Andrew Gellert. “We are concentrating in practice and in games on making solid and crisp passes...
Then, one crisp September morning, the Clintonian cult of self crashed down. Our new president asked us to believe in things bigger than ourselves, and we did. We believe in many big things now, like the kindness of children sending dollars to Afghanistan and the courage of firemen sprinting into the mouth of hell. But most especially we have remembered to believe in those two victims of the modern academy: America...