Word: mannerize
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...quite interesting that Dean Queen was quoted as making a point of alerting as many students as possible in Stephen Newman's article, when there has been absolutely no proof of this. Why officials waited so long to administer warning and why they went about things in this manner is unexcusable in my eyes...
...moderate former Republican Governor of Pennsylvania. But he brought along a tight-knit group of cronies from Harrisburg and shut out almost everyone else. Even Deputy Attorney General Donald Ayer, a Washington attorney, was excluded from the 8:30 a.m. staff meeting. Moreover, Thornburgh's sometimes imperious manner grated with Congress, the press and Justice employees. Problems mounted quickly...
...Electoral politics" is a loaded and ambiguous phrase. By not clarifying what he means, Cohen has obscurred current PBHA policy, and has treated a highly complex issue in a most superficial manner...
Mandela may lack the rousing, bred-in-the-pulpit style of black orators like King or Jesse Jackson. His soft-spoken manner and unflappable dignity bespeak his background as a lawyer, a single-minded political organizer and a longtime prisoner still blinking a bit in the spotlight. But Mandela's magnetism is palpable, the consequence of his endurance and determination in the fight against South Africa's white-minority government. He fires the pride of African Americans and touches a deep desire in the psyche of Americans both black and white for a leader who might rekindle the biracial coalition...
...Both grew up in Czechoslovakia, and both left. Navratilova, who defected in 1975, is a naturalized U.S. citizen; Lendl, who renounced his former homeland more subtly, soon will be. Both struggled to master English, and both now speak it fluently, with a dry, self- belittling wit. Both love all manner of sports: Lendl is a fiend for golf and hockey, while Navratilova is enchanted with skiing, basketball and, as a spectator, American football. Both rose to the top through raw physical power, and both have seen the game evolve so much, in terms of their opponents' fitness and sheer anatomical...