Word: spined
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Still, Newman, 77, projects a relaxed authority that downplays the drama's sentimentality and stiffens its philosophical spine. His now wispy body and white hair make him more grandfatherly than ever. But he comes across less as a sage or authorial god than as a matter-of-fact neighbor who just happens to have stuck around long enough to tell the story. It's in keeping with Wilder's paean to those mundane details of life that we take for granted--and that pass away all too fleetingly. "You know how it is," Newman says, leaping at the line...
...invitation? That may not be a fair criticism of the entire faculty, as the group that un-invited Paulin was, according to The Crimson, smaller than the group that re-invited him. But the professors who were involved in and supported both decisions manifestly lack any semblance of a spine...
...started using rouge. There had been a marked change since the beginning of the year, according to Lumbard—Say was “secretive and not inclined to be frank.” Say, he said, would explain the change by saying he had trouble with his spine and was being cared for closely by his mother...
...uber-search engine Google sent a shiver of fear down the spine of editors everywhere last week when it launched its automated news site. But while News.google.com is fast and complete, TIME.com managing editor Joshua Macht notes, there's just no substitute for the human touch...
...Every life that was lost that day should remind us to stay united. It unfortunately takes such a tragedy to strengthen America's spine." TERRI VANGORDEN Elmira...