Word: remarkable
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...performance is that the White House let the Chancellor know he would not be forced to take a public position on Iraq before election day. The Bush team expected a little good behavior in return, but Schroder kept stomping. He did send Bush an apology about his minister's remark, but White House officials viewed it as "arrogant." Says another senior Administration official: "If you had asked me before the Hitler comment, I would have said this is retrievable. Now, boy, I'll tell...
With that unnerving remark, my eyes strained towards the ground to assess whether or not my long-neglected pinky toes had, as Teddy predicted, been rendered gimpy and disfigured from years spent under the yoke of New Balances. Pointing to his own feet, Teddy illustrated the sort of vigorous, proud and gloriously unmarred pinky toes that could flourish in the absence of shoes. I again peered downward in an effort to survey the damage wrought by 20 years of intense shoe dependency and I found only two withered stubs masquerading as pinky toes. They looked less like natural appendages...
...game in a semipro league and signed him to be their third-stringer. Two years later, his precise passes and menacing game face rallied the Colts past the Giants in a match that helped spark new popularity for the NFL. His icy confidence inspired teammate John Mackey to remark at the time, "It's like being in a huddle with God." When Unitas retired in 1973, he was the first quarterback to reach 40,000 yards for a career. His 47 consecutive games with a touchdown pass are still a league record...
...attitude of the neighbors is best summed up by one remark made at an early meeting, related by Riverside activist Cob Carlson. “If you build it, we’re going to bomb it,” the neighbor said...
...better not bad-mouth privates from other Afghan ethnic groups as they all train together under U.S. Green Berets commissioned to create the new Afghan national army. The penalty for ethnic slurs is 50 push-ups. But it's still possible to get away with a sniping remark now and then. The Americans need a troop of translators to tell what insults are being lobbed in the various tribal languages...