Word: rowdier
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...about it long and hard. It's a difficult time to go out and do things you'd normally do because there's that fear that if something happens - and that could be anything, not necessarily that we're attacked or anything like that - but just people may be rowdier because of the patriotism that they're feeling. Usually we've gone on the FDR drive up to the highway to watch the fireworks. But this year I'm worried: What if the crowd starts to run because somebody's setting off fireworks or something...
...there is something different about McCain's student supporters. Their cheeks are rosier, their cheering louder, their rowdiness rowdier. And it's not obvious why this is so. Gore and Bradley promise the most money for higher education, Bush is the youngest and (arguably) most charming, and Alan Keyes is, well, Alan Keyes. McCain, meanwhile, is a stodgy veteran who, like Grandpa at the fireplace, never stops talking about "when I was your age?...