Word: extol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brag about his athleticism, discipline and small-town purity--he is visibly withdrawing, pulling back into himself. Folded into a chair on the stage in the packed and jubilant Crystal City High School gym, the scene of his earliest hoop glory, he's listening to old friends extol his essential goodness, but he's looking bored and distracted one minute, uncomfortable the next: it's hard for him to cede control of his own story. A black Little League teammate reminisces about the 11-year-old Bradley threatening to call the mayor of Joplin, Mo., if a local hotel didn...
Democrats found themselves in the odd position of listening to a Republican--former Princeton football star and Heisman trophy winner Dick Kazmaier--extol former president Ronald Reagan before endorsing Bradley for the 2000 race...
Democrats found themselves in the odd position of listening to a Republican--former Princeton football star and Heisman trophy winner Dick Kazmaier--extol former president Ronald Reagan before endorsing Bradley for the 2000 race...
DuBois, meanwhile, has already begun to extol the virtues of the new locale. "Parking won't be as difficult," he notes...
...course, cadets deserve respectful treatment and access to their program. A ROTC shuttle service would have been acceptable, as would have been acceptable, as would have more of those "students service" initiatives that the council loves to extol. But the bill's supporters do not seem interested in negotiating ways of supporting cadets that do not blatantly endorse homophobic activities at the college...