Word: swagger
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Basil enters games with a spunky swagger that commands respect. She plays aggressively and has consistently come up with big shots at crucial times. In post-game interviews her teammates always seem to mention...
...Terriers' swagger did not lack vocal fan support. Despite the fact that the university's scheduled Thanksgiving vacation began on Monday, the stands were filled with students and other local partisans. Faces were painted black and red; B.U. hockey jerseys dotted the crowd...
From the moment the two teams took the ice to loosen up for last night's game, it was clear they held different attitudes. The grandstanding Terriers chose to skate with their helmets off. If ever there was a swagger to skating strides, the BU players tried to capture...
...districts, however, AFL-CIO spending backfired by becoming a major issue. The union federation's No. 1 target in the whole country was Arizona's John David Hayworth Jr., who is outsize in other ways also (he is 6 ft. 5 in. and 285 lb., with a voice and swagger to match). J.D., as he loves to be called, fired back by denouncing the "union bosses" for trying to buy the election for Phoenix lawyer Steve Owens, whom Hayworth called a "carpetbagger." Though Clinton has become the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry Arizona since 1948, Hayworth held...
Swingers: that word is not so much dirty as stale. It evokes the musty air of Rat Pack swagger, when Frank and Dino passed for arbiters of hip machismo. Man, did the chicks dig it! Anyway, that's what the young L.A. layabouts in Swingers pretend to think, playing it oh so cool with the "babies" and thinking they're classy when ordering pricey Scotch--something with "Glen" in its name. They bop to the knowing bounce of Louis Jordan, Bobby Darin, Basie and Bennett and the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy band, and check out Sinatra Night at the Lava...