Word: faze
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...Crimson the next day, the report of the game read: "The fact Dunster-Mather won 19-6 did not faze the Lowell players or their many partisans. The Bellboys still broke out the champagne, and--despite an 0-3 record--belted out a rendition of "We Are the Champions...
...chain-smoking, New Jersey-born attorney "totally rejects" the image of the hired gunfighter favored by many trial lawyers, but she concedes, "It is very lonely in court. You are the only thing between your client and prison." The occasional added burden of sexism does not faze her. "As a woman, you have to be better than the men; you've got to prove yourself over and over again," she observes. "But I don't consider that a problem because I would want to do that anyway...
...absence of a graduating class this year doesn't faze the school's administrators--it's happened before. In 1917, for instance, the school went from a three- to a four-year program, wiping out its potential 1920 Commencement line...
...devised a novel idea about judicial reform: "All this talk about victims' rights and restitution gets me. What about my family? I'm a victim of a crooked criminal system. Isn't my family entitled to something?" The shadow of the death penalty does not faze him: "I don't see that happening to me. What would killing me solve? Isn't that just another murder? If I got to die, it's going to be of natural causes." The state of Illinois thinks otherwise. Says Michael Ficaro, who prosecuted the I-57 case...
...surprised middle-aged person, was the announcement from Washington that the number of Americans officially designated as poor had increased to 14% of the population. What seemed incredible was not the painful number of the poor or the painful increase in that number-painful things do not faze the surprised middle-aged person-but rather the fact that the Federal Government now defines the poverty line as an income of $9,287 for a family of four...