Word: rascal
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...figure of the adorable con artist, like Harlem's Mr. Rinehart in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, whose "world was possibility." He was "Rine the runner and Rine the gambler and Rine the lover and Rine the Reverend." His multiple identities occupied "a world without borders...where Rine the rascal was at home...
That he survived at all gave the country reason to consecrate him. But McCain, a rascal midshipman who graduated near the bottom of his class, had found his faith in a different standard, where glory is measured by commitment to causes larger than oneself. And if everyone around him was saying he had brought honor to his family name, he didn't yet have reason to believe it. "They are treating us like heroes," he told his Naval Academy roommate Chuck Larson when he got back to the States, "and all I did was get shot down...
...food on the floor. (Ingrate!) After the feeding fiascos, head to the backyard to water the flowers and play on the purple dinosaur slide. With Babyz's built-in voice-recognition feature, you can even teach baby to talk. Our favorite room, however, is the nursery, where the little rascal falls fast asleep in seconds...
...always use handicap access elevators, buttons and conveniences. Or, just buy a Rascal motor-scooter for Yard transport...
...made or what confusion he sowed in some people's heads. Previous athletes had been loved or hated, and that was that, but Ali had been both at the same time. Half of you wanted to see his head handed to him, the other half sort of hoped the rascal would get away with it, and all of you showed up for more the next time...