Word: grating
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Gone where? Many, it is true, to a better life close to home. The rest to a life with no home. You see them on Main Street, foraging for food, sleeping in cartons. An army of grate dwellers...
Kings in the 15th century were known to have held their summit meetings in the middle of a bridge. The two sovereigns did their talking through a stout oak lattice set up between them, like the prison grate during visitors' hours. That way, neither could kidnap the other...
...message continues to grate. It grated when John Kennedy, in his Inaugural Address, congratulated himself for being "born in this century," a distinction Dwight Eisenhower lacked. It grates now when practitioners of "generational politics" imply that youth carries some special virtue...
...Carousel,” is written at a third-grade reading level. In fact, by my count, there were only five words over two syllables; and lyrics like “this was a real nice clambake, and we all had a real nice time!” can grate even on ears that prefer minimalism...
Even after Bob Rubin’s grooming, University President Lawrence H. Summers’ rough edges grate his contemporaries. The latest Summers brouhaha—courtesy of a hostile Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting on Tuesday—is the same old story told and retold in The New York Times since Summers took over the Treasury. He’s gruff, sartorially sloppy, colleagues consider him aggressive, even arrogant. Also, he’s brilliant—one of the sharpest minds in President Clinton’s cabinet. He’s a potential Nobel laureate...