Word: squeaked
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...goals from both Johnston and co-captain Lauren McAuliffe, Harvard needed an extra five minutes to squeak past the Bears...
Lethem, whose previous novel Motherless Brooklyn was named the “Book of the Year” by Esquire, is very engaged in his characters. This was clearly evident at the reading; he eagerly mimicked the dull hulk of a schoolyard bully; he let the squeak of a scared submissive jump from his lips. Clad in tight jeans, a bright yellow shirt and Costello glasses, Lethem was as colorful as his characters themselves...
...president during Bush's visit to Beijing last year, the look of pleasure and appreciation the President had to sustain must have left creases in his face. The dancing that can sometimes be required at state functions is particularly unwelcome for Bush, who doesn't really like to squeak across the parquet...
...fictionalized account of his disgrace and its aftermath with a central character named Stephen Glass. You might expect a legendary liar to have a gift for invention. "I am compulsively imaginative," the "fictional" Glass assures us. But you'd never know it from this wan novel about a pip-squeak Raskolnikov who wants everybody to love...
...other purveyors of soft money. But if money becomes equated with raw political expression, then wealthy individuals, by virtue of birth or choice of profession, get more free speech than others. Without the law, a Wall Street lawyer gets a booming voice capable of permanently drowning out the mere squeak a field hand in California can muster. If campaign contributions really are a form of free speech, then the status quo means “expression” for only the wealthiest of Americans...