Word: dogged
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...Oxford taught Ted one important lesson: He was not suited for scholarship. Actually he was told that by a young classmate peering over his shoulder at the impish illustrations, such as a two-legged dog with wings (and shoes) that he drew in the margins of his notebook. The classmate was Helen Palmer, a Wellesley grad taking her Master's in education, and Ted thought her judgment so acute that, a year later, he married her. He also left Oxford after a year. The only doctorate he'd need would be self-awarded...
...opposition, particularly in the debate against Vice President Cheney (or, failing that, a Vice President who will bring his home state along--and Dick Gephardt has a better chance of doing both than Edwards). Edwards' fluffy passivity is not a very good audition if the job description is attack dog...
...have a flannel-mouthed inability to utter a simple sentence, but his orotundities also serve to reinforce the notion that the Senator from Massachusetts is a patrician stiff, too smug to speak in a manner decipherable by ordinary Americans. In fairness, John Kerry has been as sick as a dog these past few weeks and duller than he might ordinarily be--but there was a real sense last week that Kerry, assuming victory, had lapsed into flabby aristocratic entitlement, a persona he inhabits when not in mortal combat...
...Dog Day Afternoon
...Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time