Word: puckishness
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That means that poor Democratic Rep. Norman E. D'Amours, a hardworking puckish little man with a reputation for keeping to himself and his state's best interests, has had himself an uphill fight. New Hampshire's economy screamed in the midst of the 1982 recession, with unemployment among the nation's highest at 9.2 percent. New, at a time when the most effective political rallying cry is "me!", New Hampshire boasts the fastest growing economy east of the Mississippi, Unemployment is at 3 percent. That's the national...
...column he complained that though he had once been a "lonely Reagan booster," he has been denied any interviews with Reagan because Safire "from time to time was-in Mr. Reagan's words to a press aide-hostile to us." Partly out of shrewd instinct, partly out of puckish perversity, Safire cannot be counted in anyone's corner, but "when my right-wing confreres and pols depart from principle I feel particularly pained." His working motto is "Kick them when they're up." He recently defended Bert Lance when he was down. Safire used to write speeches...
...sober light of morning, the boys began to wish they had never tried their puckish prank. Whenever Per put his rucksack down, the arm inside made such a resounding clunk that his companions took to teasing him. Per, they said, must be the vandal who had alarmed the city's police force. And so that very night, the sheepish boys aroused a drowsy policeman and placed the severed limb before him. Before Per and Mike can live happily ever after, they may have to pay for the mermaid's repair. And that is likely to cost them...
MacLaine's earnest intensity is balanced by a keen sense of humor and an unpretentious, often puckish approach to life. Dean Martin calls her "the world's best laugher" and has traded practical jokes with her for years. Konchalovsky says, "Shirley likes to play, to throw you in the water or to make a small device that falls on your head so something spills all over you." She has childlike fears: lightning and Chinese firecrackers. Until lately, she prided herself on being able to walk down the street unrecognized, if she chose, simply by changing the proud dancer...
...crossroads. Winship, 63, is due to retire next year, and his successor must determine whether to discipline the Globe at the risk of diminishing its undeniable heart. Still too much a writer's paper, the Globe may need a sterner master in its next phase than the puckish, avuncular Winship...