Word: gruffness
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...FARE DEAL New York City's cabdrivers can be gruff, but their vehicles, at least, will soon be enviro-friendly: the city's new Clean Air Taxis Act will allow thousands of cabbies to start switching to hybrid models this summer...
...second floor of the headquarters of the Cambridge Fire Department (CFD), located just south of Memorial Hall, the 30-something sits at a hallway desk, typing. Her more seasoned colleagues, half-dressed in sleep shorts and the firefighter’s uniform, pass behind her chair and mutter gruff greetings...
...costumes and performing an impossibly energetic, strenuously graceful "ghetto ballet." Or the Dominican preteens in New York City who take up ballroom dancing in Mad Hot Ballroom, or the music students in Rock School. And though the quadriplegics who play a brutal form of wheelchair rugby in Murderball are gruff, grown men, they too are capable of uplift. "I'm alive," says one. "I use everything I have, to get through life. That's what we're all here to do. Use everything we have...
...adapts a novel by Diana Wynne Jones about Sophie (voiced by Emily Mortimer), a Cinderella type who, under a witch's spell, instantly becomes a 90-year-old crone (Jean Simmons) and takes residence in the portable home of the birdman Howl (Christian Bale, speaking in Clint Eastwood's gruff whisper...
...shoot the names right back at him. But they must be properly chosen so as to peeve him sufficiently. If he is the bookish type, try calling him “Hunk” or perhaps “Tarzan.” If he prides himself on his gruff and buff exterior, try “Twinkle Toes...