Word: strikingly
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...work on foreign policy aimed at the general public must strike the difficult balance between academic scholarship and public accessibility. The essays in Reversing Relations may be more interesting than a foreign policy textbook, but can hardly be called riveting. Ironically, those interested in reading Reversing Relations probably already know most of the information the book presents; anyone who has been around since the 1950s and kept up with current events will have seen nearly all the events offered here unfolding as they happened...
...Wednesday was to try to move the trial to Drudge's home state of California. Judge Paul Friedman didn't rule on that one immediately, but some of his other pronouncements were less than hopeful for the defense: "Public figures," he said, "have the right not to be defamed." Strike one for Drudge, who falsely alleged last August that Blumenthal was involved in "spousal abuse...
...careful, you can get lulled into the idea that you have lots of support. I had to get across to him that these supporters are wonderful verbally, but that if it came to the crunch, they could do nothing for him, and that after the strike, they would say, "Well, we told him, and he didn't listen." And then they will join the consensus, including even the bigger countries...
...Washington Times last week lobbed a pre-emptive strike against Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, warning that his private life will be fair game if he decides to run for President. If the country loses the candidacy of one of the nation's most successful Governors to moral terrorism, the press may yet come to see that there is more to journalism than moving product, no matter how heated the competition." --Aug. 12, 1991, from an article on press coverage of politicians' private lives...
...beard,' in Hollywood parlance, is a man employed by a male star to accompany him when he appears in public with a woman not his wife. Sometimes female stars use them too. A 'hunker' is somebody kept on the payroll to know baseball scores, send out for coffee and strike matches on." --Aug. 29, 1955, from a footnote to a cover story on Frank Sinatra...