Word: jarringly
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...puts down the mustard jar, walks over to Harley-Davidson and Coors, stands in front of them, hands on wide hips. "Now you listen here, Charlie, I'm good enough woman for any man but all you guys want are chippies...
Everybody under Peter Ueberroth's power has been ordered to the specimen jar to prove that no one in baseball gets a kick from cocaine--with the possible exception of the players. By all reports, enough of them are using coke to interest grand juries and alarm the commissioner. But since drug testing of major leaguers, as negotiated by their union, is a largely voluntary matter, Ueberroth is cracking down on the bat boys, secretaries, office clerks, scouts, managers (Pete Rose included?), owners--and commissioners--in a gesture that is undeniably noble, probably futile and more than faintly Olympian. Sentimental...
...government. The President's remarks represented his most forthright departure to date from his previous insistence that the purpose of U.S. support for the contras was to force Nicaragua to cut off, or at least reduce, support for insurgents in neighboring El Salvador. Reagan's words seemed designed to jar Congress into releasing $14 million in contra aid. Congress had agreed to that allocation last October, but then held back for a second vote originally scheduled for this month...
...them is after Mora, 41, a Miami policeman convalescing in Puerto Rico from a mugger's bullet that chipped his hipbone. The wound initially looked worse than it was, because the second shot shattered a half-gallon of Gallo Hearty Burgundy that Mora was carrying, along with a jar of Ragu spaghetti sauce and a bottle of prune juice. The items suggest that the lieutenant is no oenophile, dislikes cooking and suffers from constipation. More important, a grocery list is Leonard's shorthand way of establishing his hero's endearing authenticity as a middle-aged widower who, despite badge...
...discovery of what he calls a "mild" form of cancer (Is he on the level?), his reactions; his treatment by Dr. Canellos in Boston, the reactions of his staff and friends. He wants us to feel his anguish. Not so that we will pity him, but only to jar us from our complacent attitudes towards the roles of success and career...