Word: gracefulness
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Anyone who has spent time with George W. Bush can tell a version of the same story about the frictionless ease of his personality. Longtime friend and campaign manager Don Evans remembers the grace with which Bush gave away a box of tools he was selling to a man who was eyeing them but clearly didn't have the dough. Texas Rangers fans recall the effortless charm of the team owner who sat in the regular seats, and even John McCain, Bush's nemesis in the primaries, marvels at the seductive charisma he encountered in their first postprimary meeting...
...Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams 4. Solitude - Duke Ellington 5. This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie 6. Shake, Rattle and Roll - Charles Calhoun (Joe Turner's recording) 7. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry 8. I Am the Walrus - Beatles 9. Street Fighting Man - Rolling Stones 10. Amazing Grace - John Newton
...Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley 2. Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley 3. Your Cheating Heart - Hank Williams 4. America the Beautiful 5. Amazing Grace 6. Yesterday - Beatles 7. Over the Rainbow 8. If I Fell - Beatles 9. Take Five - Dave Brubeck 10. Any of Ella Fitzgerald's major hits...
...road, a great blue heron prospects for frogs, standing poised in the early evening clarity, utterly still... then strikes with a lightning flash of beak. At my approach, the heron rouses itself in a cumbersome fluster, and rises in the air and flaps off in prehistoric, slow-motion grace, topping the red pines...
...raising troops and money for a war of independence. This alienates his son Gabriel (charmingly played by Heath Ledger), who joins the Continental Army. And it reckons without the relentless cruelty of Colonel William Tavington (whom Jason Isaacs plays with ferocious candor, offering neither excuses nor a single redeeming grace...