Word: patronizing
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Glenn Pettit, a regular Toscanini’s patron who sought out a scoop despite yesterday’s sub-zero wind chill, characterized ice cream as, “one of those things you have to get your...
...studying for finals by calculating how many points of ERA Shea Stadium will save Pedro Martinez or how many days Randy Johnson will spend on the DL in ‘05, crack open a beer for Curt Flood, the patron saint of free agents. If he hadn’t courageously challenged the reserve clause in his contract in 1970, players might still be restricted to spending their entire career with one team...
...until Yushchenko becomes President. Some of the makeshift shelters that popped up in late November have been replaced by large, army-issue tents, and Independence Square even has its own daily newspaper, the Revolution, a leaflet of resistance news. Yanukovych, the beneficiary of the vote-rigging, broke with his patron Kuchma and denounced the reform package; even some Yushchenko allies were against it. Yulia Timoshenko, a radical opposition leader, refused to vote on it. "This reform strips the President of powers he needs to deliver on his promises to the people," she fumed. But Mikhailo Svistovich, an activist with...
McKenna said she plans to continue her research projects at Harvard. She is translating a seven-volume work of Welsh court poetry, which she was instrumental in assembling in 1994, and studying Saint Brigit, one of the patron saints of Ireland whose historicity remains a topic of debate...
...course, it’s not always a space issue. One particularly zealous patron once presented the bar’s management with a life-sized poster of Josef Stalin...