Word: knightly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth, however, is that no white knight is about to come save the Democratic party. And the public is unlikely to be enthusiastic about anyone who comes riding up on a steed this last in the game. Americans may have mixed feelings about charisma, but they routinely dismiss people who don't stick it out and fight. Clinton is admired for his staying power, if for noting else...
Forward Steve Dubinsky (9-21-30) and forward Hugo Belanger (12-16-28) have led the Golden Knight's in the scoring column and will play a crucial role in tonight's contest...
...Poland, some with a circulation that exceeded 30,000. Books and pamphlets challenging the authority of the communist government were printed by the thousands. Comic books for children recast Polish fables and legends, with Jaruzelski pictured as the villain, communism as the red dragon and Walesa as the heroic knight. In church basements and homes, millions of viewers watched documentary videos produced and screened on the equipment smuggled into the country...
Take Douglas. He is delightfully convincing as the detached, debonair, duty-bound white knight. Although Leland's macho characteristics are not always appealing to the audience, Douglas manages to make him endearing. Able to make the audience laugh, but not forget for a moment the gravity of the material, Douglas creates a presence which emanates "Duty, honor, country" with every gesture...
...surprising that this loss of childhood would catch up with her and that at fortysomething a parent substitute would come along in the guise of a knight in shining sedan, "someone," she writes, "I couldn't take care of." Overscheduled women everywhere will recognize themselves in her surrender to a decision-free zone of well-appointed houses and someone to clean them. "I found this very restful," she writes of the period. "I was just so . . . tired...