Word: grayness
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...begins to turn that pale shade of gray that heralds the rising sun. The birds begin to chirp. Inside, you feel the giddy lightness that springs from a mix of fatigue, anxiety and satisfaction—fatigue from lack of sleep; anxiety about the work you have not done and will not get to do; satisfaction at having made it through the night. You are happy but horrified to be awake...
...began his own legal career as a law clerk to New York appellate court Judge Learned Hand. He then spent three years as an associate at the Boston law firm Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge and Rugg...
Increasingly, it seems, the gray hairs that parents once got from fretting over why Johnny can't read are now just as likely to sprout from anxiety about why he can't behave. "When a lot of parents see how their kids interact with playmates and other adults, they're horrified," says Denise Honaker, who taught Kevin and 14 others in the Polite Is Right class she held after school at Cornerstone Elementary in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif...
...what faith is. True faith is marked by the absence of doubt. Large amounts of self-doubt do not make for solid and reliable leadership. What Klein espoused is the moral ambiguity that has brainwashed an entire generation of American intellectuals, who see the world in shades of gray. America is great because of the convictions of leaders like President Bush. TODD HANSELMAN Buford...
...Super Size Me had to offer was a portrait of Spurlock growing increasingly gray, whiny and, finally, scared about what he's doing to himself, it would be no more than an attention-getting device by a slightly smarmy man who rather lacks Michael Moore's bullying star quality. Face it, even in a nation where a quarter of the population eats at least once a week in a fast-food joint, mass emulation of his diet is unlikely...