Word: quainted
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...unsuspecting guest this appears odd. Surely a country that has with such high success and low cunning preserved every quaint and tourist-attracting feature it posesses--regardless of intrinsic worth--would take especial care to do so in the case of its government. After all, is not "Inertia" the great rallying call of the British? What possibly could have induced Parliament to introduce such vast numbers of Americans into its musty domain...
LaVergne (pop. 5,500) is a decidedly rawboned blue-collar town rather than a quaint Tennessee tourist attraction. Dotted with car washes and low-rise factories, it has a work force that exceeds its population. Mayor Vester Waldron describes the place as a "bedroom community without the bedrooms...
...class warfare. The dancers command extraordinary energy and seem in total, avid sympathy with the choreographer. Unfortunately, American audiences may find these mighty pageants simplistic. The silent-film grimaces, the cartoons of good and evil, + the battle cries hurled soundlessly into the air can all be a bit quaint, unless one is willing to forget everything that Balanchine and Tudor accomplished and enter this brave old world wholeheartedly...
...University rests with the Corporation, which is self-perpetutating. But this is not true. The Charter places final authority for all University affairs, except routine daily business, in the Board of Overseers. The Corporation acts for the University, but is "always responsible" to the Board. The orthography is quaint, but the meaning is clear...
...PROBABLY has a lot to offer. It brought us David Letterman, for instance. But if the creators of Hoosiers are to be believed, then every community in the state has nothing better to do for five months of the year than to follow its high school basketball team from quaint agrarian town to quaint agrarian town, living and dying by their every dribble...