Word: disciplinarian
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...married Kit when Newt was three and adopted him as his son. He spent the next 16 years trying to tame him; Newt spent those years trying to get his father's attention. Bob was a Democrat; Newt, from childhood, a Republican. Bob was a disciplinarian; Newt, a rebel. Once when Bob was stationed in Orleans, France, he was awakened at 5 a.m. by some MPs, who had caught young Newt hitchhiking. Newt's first love, a girl named Jeannette, had just broken up with him, and he wanted to go plead with her to take him back. Furious, Gingrich...
From the beginning, we are impressed with Jade's engaging character. Her irreverent witticisms are refreshingly down-to-earth, and her surprisingly low-voiced thespian soliloquies are dramatic, if not wholly sensical. Also, Jade's repeated efforts to appease her aggravatingly stubborn disciplinarian father garner audience sympathy...
Parcells is a football demigod. He is the one of the last of those coaching dinosaur: the disciplinarian. He doesn't coddle the players (like a recently fired Boston coach did) and he doesn't protect them from the media cutthroats. He doesn't heap praise on them or soothe their egos. He screams. And, he does it with artery-popping intensity...
...R.P.F. leader, Kagame was a brilliant guerrilla tactitian and a strict disciplinarian, banning alcohol and discouraging sex. Tolerant and inclusive, he broadened the movement to include members of all factions, provided they shared his democratic sentiments. Conflicts between Tutsi and Hutu, he told TIME's Marguerite Michaels last week, "are not a problem. We will work...
...proliferation of certain types of cells, followed by mass suicide. Human embryos start with paddles for hands; it is cell death that gives them fingers. Neurons also expire by the billions as the brain refines its circuitry during development. In adults, the cell- death program serves as a stern disciplinarian. Cells that become irreparably damaged are expected to fall on their swords for the greater good of the organism. "For an animal to live," says Dr. Samuel Broder, director of the National Cancer Institute, "it must contain within its cells the knowledge that they have to die. But the cancer...