Word: flair
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...times, Obama showed a lawyer's flair for conceding the small points that aren't worth arguing about. This pattern was most visible in an unexpected exchange over whether Obama has sufficiently distanced himself from Louis Farrakhan's expressions of support for his candidacy. After Obama had said he has long denounced Farrakhan's anti-Semitic statements, Clinton said Obama had to do more and flat-out reject his support. Obama, sensing a tiny opening that Clinton had carved in his performance, asked whether there was much of a semantic difference between the words "reject" and "denounce," but then defused...
...December 1899, when attacking British forces were being repulsed in the Boer War, she declaimed: "Failure? The possibilities do not exist. I'm not talking about failure. I am talking about supreme confidence in the British fleet, superlative troops, excellent equipment. We must use all our professionalism, our flair, every single bit of native cunning and all our equipment. We must go out calmly, quietly, to succeed...
...resounding victories in the doubles, clinching the point. Junior Sasha Ermakov and freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien led the way with an 8-3 victory over Eagles counterparts Garber and Wagner at No. 2, while senior Ashwin Kumar and sophomore Michael Hayes’ irresistible combination of power and flair proved too much for Kreutzer and Sechrist in an 8-4 triumph at No 1. With the Eagles’ wings clipped and their fervent traveling support silenced, the Crimson went on to dominant proceedings in the singles. No. 3 Omodele-Lucien—in his fourth dual of the day?...
...times when Harvard is kicking you in the ass, dating someone provides a little butt padding. Plus, you’ll never have the problem of adding flair to your relationships—the “challenges” of Harvard sufficiently prevent you from sitting in a room with your boo, fiddling your thumbs, and wondering, “Gee, what should we do now?” At the very least, you should be able to muster a romantic study date in Lamont (read: true love...
...Crimson battled hard for the puck in the neutral zone and kept finding ways to get a stick on the puck in front of the BC goalie John Muse. Call it plain old competitive fire, the seniors’ desire to graduate with a Beanpot trophy, or simply a flair for the dramatic. Regardless, the Crimson’s players were able to draw on mental toughness to maintain faith in their ability to skate with the Eagles all night, coming back from deficits to tie the game three times. When that critical moment came in the third period, Harvard...