Word: leanse
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The formula has changed somewhat over the years, but it is still essentially the one Wallace hit on in 1920; simplified, condensed articles, most of them striking a note of hope, the whole interspersed with pifhy saws or chuckly items. It tries to minimize the negative and accentuate the positive...
His partner happens to remark during the planning session that "Holland's the boss." Holland leans back in his chair, looks at his companions, and says, "Yes, I am the boss." It's a good line, delivered with a good smirk, and there's no improving on that. In fact...
Shelley to Ubangi. Because professors, even in England, cost less than comedians, the Third Programme operates comfortably on a budget of around $2,000,000 a year. And because it broadcasts only in the evening and leans heavily on recordings, the Third can get by with a permanent staff of...
"It is obvious that we are now living in a time of anxiety ... all such periods generate forces of reaction," he said. He differentiated between conservatism--which "leans heavily on due process of law"--and reaction, "which appeals to the mob spirit and operates by intimidation."
It is not necessary to go into the complexities of Phelps' plot. "One need only explain that the setting is a "life-sized portrait of Melville's study" and that the people in the painting come to life and philosophize and indulge in banter with people of our own day...