Word: orneryness
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If Gates is feeling a little cranky these days, he has good reason. The Justice Department just derailed his $2 billion bid to acquire Intuit and its popular Quicken electronic-checkbook program, a deal that would have helped realize Microsoft's ambition to make money from almost every commercial transaction...
But what Gates and Bingaman could not have foreseen is that the case would land before the ornery intellect of Stanley Sporkin-a former chief of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission who never learned the meaning of the words "It's none of my business.'' The more Sporkin...
The Beans are no-accounts too numerous to count. They are the one-family inner city of dismal little Egypt, Maine. They do odd jobs. They hunt deer out of season and do stupid, self-destructive things in all seasons. They seem to have never heard of contraception. They have...
Bellow responded that a journalist had misunderstood that particular "piercing question" and noted that neither the Bulgarians nor the Americans have a Proust. Then he made the ornery outburst: "My critics, many of whom could not locate Papua New Guinea on the map, want to convict me of contempt for...
ORNERY IS A GOOD TEXAS WORD. IT'S probably the word Tommy Lee Jones' teachers were searching for when, on a report card at his Dallas prep school, they described him as "sullen, morose and belligerent." But ornery is just a corruption of ordinary. And this eighth-generation Texan has...