Word: gentlemanly
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...rules expert and lawyer, plus a video-tape camera to record all races for replay. "Expert advocacy," says Bond, "is as much a part of racing now as a boat." All this may offend the guardians of the Cup, but Bond is not concerned. "To say this is a gentleman's sport is to be under illusions," he insists. "Those days are gone...
...have full access to all the relevant information, especially when what was already known was so damning. After all, they point out, Solicitor General Robert Bork declined the job precisely for that reason. Criminal Lawyer Joseph Oteri has a theory to explain the lapse: "St. Clair is a gentleman, and he expects that when someone gives you his word, that person's telling the truth. Now how the hell can you sit the President of the U.S. down, grill him and tell him, 'You're lying, you bastard, come clean...
...year before I arrived in Cambridge I talked with the Newsweek bureau chief in Atlanta--a warm, good-natured gentleman who couldn't give me a job but who was willing to share some philosophical thoughts about the South that I, a Northerner, was visiting the first time...
Five years ago, I had been well on my way to becoming one more of the tour's 70-shooters who "can't beat Tom Thumb with a gun," when the racism and elitism that pervades the (white) gentleman's game of golf--then thrown into stark relief by the politics of the day--had become too much to endure. Caught up in the spirit of the times, I denounced the "isms" of golf, and sold my clubs for two ounces of marijuana. "Coming back" to cover the $200,000 Pleasant Valley Classic, Massachusett's only major PGA event...
MANN: I am fully aware that many American people consider that the President is being attacked by sinister forces in this country, by the left-wing press or by the Democrats, and I can assure this gentleman that it matters not to me his party or his position. He is subject to the rule of law and to justice, and in my role under my oath, he will get it, be he President or be he pauper...