Word: low-key
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Sporting cargo pants and carrying a bike messenger bag across his shoulder, the young software writer turned candidate knocks on every door to remind voters of the impending election in a low-key spiel punctuated with the words “cool” and “sweet...
...third time was this past summer, when I worked with teenagers at a day camp. Kyle, the only kid who seemed at all impressed that when I wasn’t being a camp counselor I was going to Harvard, kept challenging me to play poker. The games were low-key and I was able to fake my way through it—no betting, we would essentially just draw five cards each and compare our hands, and while I was able to save face in front of my sole admirer, I still didn’t really know...
...weekends the coveted oversized ply-wood ace of hearts Beirut table is removed from the top of the pool table, the furniture disappears from the common room, the kegs appear, and all the stops are pulled as the Ten Man changes from low-key “get-together” to a multiple-keg blowout. People pack the massive room, and inevitably the line is down the stairs and out the door. “In a word: pandemonium,” jokes J. Marshall Smith ’04, when describing what has recently been an every weekend...
...every over-aggressive, paper-wasting club, there is its low-key counterpart that you just can’t seem to reach. I for one have been trying to get in touch with the Road Running club since the summer. I still haven’t heard back from their contact person, and neither has a friend of mine. Another first-year I know has gotten the cold shoulder from the photo club. And it took another friend of mine more than a few trips down to the MAC just to find out where he could sign up for instructional...
...fair itself was a relatively low-key event, with roughly 15 students making the rounds every hour...