Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson pushed the play hard in the first period but couldn't seem to find its legs, and fortunately for Harvard, neither could Brown, as the period ended in a scoreless...
While Harvard was playing aggressively, it just couldn't seem to make crisp passes, and the team seemed frustrated, going into the half down...
...attempts to turn herself into a New Yorker have been amateurish. When the Chicago native proclaimed herself a closet Yankees fan, when the Methodist disclosed her Jewish roots, when the advocate for poor children came out in favor of milk price supports--these moves made her seem craven, ham-fisted. When the progressive copied her husband's tactic of using party soft money to finance early TV spots, she looked no better than he. And when Bill Clinton granted clemency to a group of Puerto Rican terrorists--a move that some of Hillary's key Latino backers had lobbied...
...surcharges are particularly galling to pols and consumer groups because they seem to amount to blatant double dipping. For example, a nondepositor who pays $1.50 for ATM cash often pays his own bank a $1-to-$2 fee for the same transaction. Such fees more than cover the cost of the transaction, which opponents put at 27[cents] per withdrawal. Says Santa Monica's Feinstein: "The banks say there is no free lunch for a service, when in fact they are asking us to pay twice for lunch...
...order they give you, with a stone face and an inner glow, just because they said so and because the Big D sure will come in handy if you ever have to start shooting people. At least that's the plan, and the drill sergeants, more than anyone, seem to buy it with all their hearts...