Word: flair
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...interests of domestic harmony, I should say that my wonderful husband has always handled the day's customs with flair. Our daughters like it for the candy, which now comes in quantities rivaled only by Halloween, with Tootsie Rolls taped to the cards kids hand out. I have no problem with the holiday for 8-year-olds, now that it has shed its Darwinian savagery. Children are expected to bring a valentine for every classmate, unlike the days of our youth, when the teachers would collect the cards in a big red box and then call out names...
Although the procession by students of the elite boarding school called to mind the protests of King’s era, the students’ organizer said their queue was “no flair of civil disobedience...
...gossip about new polls or commercials and do explainer videos. The Swampland cast includes national political correspondent Karen Tumulty, who is covering her sixth presidential campaign; Washington bureau chief Jay Carney; and Ana Marie Cox, the former Wonkette, whose witty writing and fun explainer videos help give Swampland its flair. (Working with Cox to put them together is TIME.com politics producer Caitlin Thompson.) Another regular TIME.com feature, The Page, provides a daily webcast by editor-at-large Halperin and 24/7 breaking-news coverage from the trail. It has become indispensable to anyone who loves politics...
...director general of the CSA polling agency, which conducted the survey. Some of the decay in his standing comes from people who hadn't voted for Sarkozy in the first place, but had been initially impressed by his energetic and iconoclastic style; many apparently now feel the President's flair has done little to improve a gloomy economic outlook. But Rozès notes that areas of the largest drops - 15% among people aged 65 and over, for example - "comes in categories that habitually support the right and its candidates...
...gift from House Masters Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin was a black leather motorcycle jacket embroidered with the Lowell insignia. Coveney, an avid motorcyclist, donned the jacket over a Harley-Davidson shirt as the party came to a close. The present was emblematic of the personal flair noted by Coveney’s colleagues. “He brought a certain style to the House,” Eck said. She added that Coveney’s retirement “is like saying goodbye to a member of the family.” Coveney retired after taking...