Word: fancier
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...just need to get the ball to them and let them do the work, try not to make too many mistakes, manage the game, and just be a leader.” One of those weapons is classmate O’Hagan, an experienced passer with fancier feet—he’s rushed for 749 yards and 10 touchdowns, in addition to his 23 passing scores, in his career. But the talent of the backup signal caller won’t completely go to waste, as fans will be sure to see O’Hagan...
This is terribly shortsighted; hero-to-the-everyman Franklin D. Roosevelt probably wore fancier shoes than McCain does, and it's a safe bet that he was an even worse bowler than Obama is. But punishing candidates for wealth or élitism is still less crazy than punishing candidates for talent. The McCain campaign has been mocking Obama's rhetorical skills, as if speech-making were not a job requirement for the presidency. McCain's latest Web ad ridicules Obama for inspiring passion among his supporters, as if real Presidents were supposed to make Americans completely unenthusiastic. The candidates have...
...past the idea that fakeness is a bad thing--use a fancier term, like artifice, if that helps you--then The Hills is one of the most magnificent pieces of fakery on television, a jewel-like celebration of superficiality...
...home, the U.S. flexed its great muscles, put everyone to work, paid them more money, built them more and better houses, more and fancier cars (see BUSINESS IN 1952). Its enterprising suburb builders raised up almost overnight a new Levittown beside the Delaware River, bigger at birth than the pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania cities of York and Lancaster. Its patient medical researchers found drugs that gave promise of conquering TB and polio. Its impatient newspaper readers doused themselves inside & out with another wonder drug, chlorophyll, and followed the Wars of the Roses-Eleanor and Billy...
...Harvard refuses to use styrofoam cups for environmental reasons. Most of the fancier dome lids are designed to fit styrofoam cups...