Word: superbness
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...meaning assassination. But the agent's superior rejected the idea. Last March, when Senators Jesse Helms of North Carolina and John Kerry of Massachusetts introduced a resolution condemning Panama for its , poor showing in the war on drugs, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Trott protested that the Panamanian record was "superb...
...Wolfe's choice of characters holds no surprises--although, to be fair, it is rare for any bestselling author to make these people his topic--for the reader, his execution is superb. Wolfe's journalistic style translates exceptionally well to the novelistic form. The story itself is punctuated with staccato syllables and stream of consciousness musings. Wolfe communicates with the reader on a sensory level that subsumes traditional language. The chapter called "The King of the Jungle," begins with this onomonopaeic passage...
That shift came dramatically and unexpectedly. The representative of the city's unfashionable eastern district for more than a decade, Agnos badly trailed Front Runner Molinari in early polls and fund raising. But tactless campaign mailings and a poor television-debate performance hurt Molinari. Agnos' superb grass-roots organization, as well as his advocacy of rent controls and affordable housing, turned the campaign around. Agnos nearly outpolled all ten other candidates in November's general election to set up last week's landslide...
...certain that Robert will make a superb captain," said outgoing Captain Pepper, who sat out most of this season with a quadricep injury...
...refuse to get down about a single game," Hotchkin said. "You've got to put it in the context of a superb season...