Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intense man with dark brown eyes who seems to have trouble sitting still. Several times during our conversation in a cramped Cambridge motel room, the middle-aged Nicaraguan began to answer a question only to get up, rummage through a briefcase on the nearby bed, pick out a thick file, and sit down again. The files remained unopened on his lap; I sensed that Cardenal was using them as symbolic justification for the points he was trying to make. But even without concrete proof, the Nicaraguan's arguments against the ruling Sandinista junta were often convincing and disconcerting...
...delegates. That takes time. For the voter, sizing up the candidates also takes time: figuring out how they think and decide, their intelligence, temperament, imagination." At the same time, notes Ajemian, "because public life is so battering these days, a candidate's psychological armor has to be very thick. As a result, political image making has reached new levels of skill and manipulation, emphasizing the candidates' strengths and covering their weaknesses. The task is to identify both the candidate and the real person. We can't learn too much about future Presidents...
Mondale lighted a long, thick cigar and sat back on the sofa. Though he is a shrewd political analyst, he is not reflective about himself. One wondered as he talked how much he saw of his own weaknesses. "I'm my own agent now," he said, "not someone else's advocate. I've tested myself. I went out for two years like a national vagrant, learning, changing, to see if I had what's necessary to lead...
...comes across very much as the brooding, thoughful central figure--an "honorable man" caught between considered morality and bold, heroic action. James Finnegan consistently understates Brutus's tension and growing disillusion at the havoc his revolutionary act has brought. Only an occasional flush, as he runs his fingers through thick curly hair or lets a nerve flicker in the corner of his mouth, reveals the turmoil written into the character...
...struggling men's Harvard lacrosse team took a step in the right direction Saturday, only to land in the thick mud of the University of Delaware field, tagged with a 9-7 loss...