Word: shun
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...retail long-distance game has pushed the shares as low as $21 since, and on Monday, with the stock at $27, AT&T's board met to consider a capitulation plan. Split the company in four, with a stock for each division, and let investors reward or shun each on its own merits...
...government, however, Big Sister Ping is a big-time crook and people smuggler. She may have puttered around the Yung Sun restaurant and the Tak Shun variety store, but federal investigators say she also ran a global crime network that netted her more than $40 million, made her a major competitor of China's central bank, helped her corrupt foreign government officials and changed the face of New York City. For years, law enforcement called her the Mother of All Snakeheads, a leader of the species of international gangsters who specialize in the brutal trade in humans from China...
...mystery: Why do we shun our pedaling heroes? The only explanation I can come up with is that we're just intimidated by the whole cycling world. The physical and mental stamina required to win a Tour is worlds beyond anything demanded in traditional American sports (which may be why Americans are so put out by cycling - most of us realize we can never, ever be that fit, and it makes us vaguely uncomfortable). So we go back to our putting greens and swinging our little metal sticks, and avoid contemplation of our inadequacies...
Childhood innocence doesn't crop up much these days in serious fiction. Perhaps Freud is to blame, or maybe William Golding, whose Lord of the Flies dramatized the pre-Romantic notion that young folks deprived of civilization will naturally turn into savages. Even children's books now tend to shun wide-eyed wonder and to feature instead little sophisticates dealing knowingly with various forms of family dysfunction...
Months earlier John Bradley had been one of the six men immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's one-in-a-million photograph of the flag raising atop Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi. After the war, Tibbets went home to Columbus, Ohio, to eventually run a corporate-jet service and shun publicity. Bradley returned home to Antigo, Wis., to become a funeral director and community pillar. He never told war stories...