Word: stolidness
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This past weekend the Baltimore Orioles lost any hope for the American League pennant with a double dip to the New York Yankees in Shea Stadium. The stolid people of Baltimore, who have always counted on their team's stretch drive to victory, probably blame their failure on the collapse in New York. The sanguine fans of Boston probably ascribe the Orioles' downfall to a two-game series in the beginning of September, when the Red Sox smoked the Orioles twice in Baltimore...
...querulous and unfocused, refugees wrenched by the camera from the context of their lives. The stop-and-start chapters abort their growth and development; some family members are simply dropped or disappear inexplicably for hundreds of pages. Though they struggle with life's standard challenges and disappointments, the stolid Neumillers are rarely compelling enough to carry the massive burden of their saga...
...proteins on the surface of the cell, like Folkman's Angiogenesis Factor, which are foreign to the victim. Genetically, too, "the cancer cell is of a given differentiated type that loses control of its own growth," Benacerraf says. He is on the fourth floor of Building D at the stolid gray Med School quadrangle, and when he alludes to other investigations of cancer, it is usually by reference to the floor or building on the quadrange where the research is being conducted. His only apparent bias seems to be against the clinicians, whose "gross" methods of extinguishing cancer...
Benn swapped places with Energy Minister Eric Varley, a stolid Wilson loyalist who had also campaigned against the EEC but less noisily than Benn. Education Minister Reginald Prentice, a leading pro-Marketeer, was switched to the Ministry of Overseas Development as a gesture of evenhandedness. Although the Overseas Ministry is technically sub-Cabinet, Prentice was allowed to keep his Cabinet rank when Home Secretary Roy Jenkins threatened to resign over his fellow moderate's demotion. The Prentice move displaced Leftist Judith Hart, who was offered the Ministry of Transport but turned it down in pique. "I fear...
...homestead, worked his way up to become first a successful lawyer and then the most popular governor in Wyoming's history. He is also conservative enough to help mend Ford's political fences with the G.O.P.'s right wing. Beyond that, Hathaway, though somewhat stolid, is a proven administrator capable of running a 56,000-person department...