Word: righ
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...Swooping around from down low on the right side, Gibbons takes aim from the righ circle and beats Richter to the right side to tie the score. Tie game...
...precision than a newsreader. So is lazy RP in the cards for me? Hughes has me read that fine old Cockney ballad My Baby Has Gone Down the Plughole and picks up on the way I always sound the consonant at the end of a word (I pronounce it righ-T, not righ'). According to him, I don't just have a British stiff upper lip but a tense lower one as well. He shows me what I'm doing and it looks uncannily like the Queen, whose voice is even more pinched than mine. He tells me to relax...
INEVER REALLY was that interested in the final club scene. Still, that scene was never interested in me--a fact which threw a wrench in my grand scheme of self-righ-teousness...
This is true gallows humor, bitter and funny, set in Argentina nearly ten years ago during that country's period of paramilitary repression. Left wing violence triggered a savage righ wing reaction, a protracted spasm of bloodthirstiness and fear among the police and the military. To be a professor, a student, a known reader of books, or even to be associated distantly with anyone who might be stigmatized as an intellectual, was to risk joining the "disappeared ones," which meant to be seized, bound, tortured, murdered and thrown into secret graves...
...little chance of a substantial rise in prices within the next six months. They expect consumer prices to continue to inch up, largely because of increasing costs for services. Wholesale prices are not expected to rise more than one half of 1%−which would put them righ twhere they were...