Word: gustos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Paige pulled her aside and said, "Ms. Covalt, you've been a thorn in my backside. We need to work together, because I can't sit down anymore." He put Covalt to work on a committee to inspect the district's crumbling school buildings--a job she tackled with gusto...
...anyone who cares about music and the politics of sexiness. One shudders to think whose Doppelganger Al Gore '69 is, if Clinton is heir to the King. Perhaps Pat Boone? Gary Lewis? Better, I think, not to stretch, and instead to wait for a politician who has half the gusto of a Clinton or a Pierre Trudeau. Our natural disgust for the insipid, bloodless legalism of this election, coupled with Marcus' insights on our attraction to political depravity, go a long way toward explaining what the hell we must have been thinking back...
...presidential candidates slithering inexorably into the soft marshmallow center. We deserve warriors who've got the moxie to go down in flames. When Achilles is informed by his mother, the sea-goddess Thetis, that vanquishing Hector on the battlefield will precipitate his own demise, he unhesitatingly opts for the gusto. "I'll lie in peace once I've gone down to death," he exclaims. "But now for the moment, let me seize great glory!" (The Iliad is way WWF.) Vince, don't choke with The Game on the line. To paraphrase the late Barry Goldwater, the last major presidential candidate...
People sang this with great gusto, even the swells down front in the $60 seats. They sang verses denouncing the East Coast liberal aristocracy (which rhymes with Washington, D.C.) and "We'll take them out of first class and with a mighty cheer/ We'll send them to the rear" and a verse about Bush and Gore ("We'll make them work the night shift in a 7-Eleven store/ And let them clean the toilets and let them scrub the floor") and another verse against "the media, those mighty millionaires/ Who weave their little fictions sitting on their derrieres...
...Gore, Bush faces a capable challenger, someone who will dredge up the governor's environmental record with gusto, who will question Bush's true measure of compassion and who will take issue with the GOP's appropriation of the traditionally Democratic messages so evident in Thursday night's speech...