Word: gracefulness
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...resemble a throw pillow or a Kliban-style meatloaf, but, awake and hungry, the average feline, one of the most highly evolved predators in the natural world, is capable of dispatching a dozen mice at a brief sitting. Alarmingly, it tends to dawdle before administering the coup de grace. Behavioralists believe this happens because cats are programmed by a primitive, vestigial stalking mechanism. Cats toy with their prey because they may be teaching kittens to hunt or may be exhibiting their prowess; cats do not always relate killing with the need to eat. When they finally do away with...
...races; in San Marino, California. Just 1.49 meters tall and weighing 44 kilograms, Shoemaker was a horse-track heavyweight, with 8,833 victories in 40,350 races, the second-most wins in history. Late Los Angeles Times sports columnist Jim Murray said Shoemaker rode "with the effortless ease and grace of a guy born to do what he was doing." At age 54, when many thought his skills were in decline, Shoemaker steered 17-to-1 long shot Ferdinand to victory in the Kentucky Derby, making him the oldest jockey to ride a Derby winner. Shoemaker suffered only two major...
...pull back enumerated above is already formidable. A decision to back off—whether intentional or by default, whether by declaring victory or by palming the job and the fault off onto others abroad and at home—could make our hasty exit from Somalia look like grace under pressure. Our respect and influence in the world, our ability to pursue our interests globally in prudent and effective ways, would be greatly damaged; further harm would come to the Iraqi people and bedlam to the Middle East; and the blame would be placed on us—abroad...
...policies as well. To start, we do think he stole the election. Yes, yes, we're told to "get over it," and we've been pretty damned gracious. But we can't help it: this still rankles. What rankles especially is Bush's almost total lack of grace about the extraordinary way he took office. Theft aside, he indisputably got fewer votes than the other guy, our guy. We expected some soothing bipartisan balm. There was none, even after 9/11. (Would it have been that hard to appoint a Democrat as head of Homeland Security, in a "bring us together...
...introduced me to the likes of Bob Dylan and Neil Young, songwriters whose music has a purpose and meaning. Cash taught me that you have got to stand for something in this world, or you lose a part of yourself. He went through life's valleys with courage and grace. CAROL NEAL Orange, Calif...