Word: gracefully
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...first and last 25 pages of To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee. Because it's not every novel that has its young heroine dressed like a ham for a Halloween pageant, because Lee creates the archetypal American neighborhood and has the good grace to let you explore it, kid-like, by the light of midnight streetlamps, and because Boo Radley, with his taste for live squirrels and lastminute heroics, is the embodiment of Halloween itself--a big, lurking Boogie Man, with a heart of gold...
...grace of God, am an American, a proud citizen of the greatest nation on earth. What right does a puny, pathetic country like Nicaragua have to judge me? Or Eugene...
...beleaguered city of Houston, jinxed in oil and space and now ninthinning rallies, showed particular grace and unusual humor in defeat. A courageous child "soloist" in a pinafore came out on the infield and sang the national anthem before the last game, and the morning after the Chronicle reported, "Around 2 p.m., little Amber Pennington, seven years old, fought her way through The Star-Spangled Banner before the start of the sixth game of the National League Championship Series. Before the game was over, Amber joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts and went to her senior prom. She was married...
Twenty Harvard undergraduates had worked for several hours a day since the beginning of the semester to prepare for the conference which gave 122 high schoolers a chance to discuss a wide range of issues relating to South Africa and Nicaragua, said Grace Won '89, the program's coordinator...
...Associate Professor Alan Brinkley has been denied tenure. It seems unfair that with a stroke of his pen Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence can add Brinkley's name to the list of other stellar junior faculty members like Bradford Lee, Robert Watson, and Paul Starr who now grace the halls of universities like UCLA and Princeton after being refused tenure at Harvard...