Word: verbes
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...This is the Liddy we came to know during her brief presidential race in 2000, when not a hair or verb was out ofplace. She's trying to be looser now as she runs to replace retiring North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms against former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles. After her stump speech about religion, the troops, jobs and schools, and an hour of meet-and-greet, I ask Dole, 66, why she isn't sweating. She hunches up her shoulders and motions for me to reachinside her jacket. "Feel the back of my neck," she offers...
...toddler in a room full of new guests"); and the stream-water clarity of his descriptions (with the sentence "His socks were white and Van Horned up around his calves," a reference to chronically uncool NBA player Keith Van Horn, Eggers may have enriched the English language by a verb). At their best, Will and Hand, like Vladimir and Estragon, have genuine existential pathos; at their worst they're a little jejune, a pair of Holden Caulfields railing at the phonies. Critics have tarred Eggers with the brush of irony, and You Shall Know Our Velocity seems...
...Koranic version of Abraham's ultimate test, Abraham tells his son of God's command, and the boy replies, "O my father! Do that which thou art commanded. Allah willing, thou shalt find me of the steadfast." Notes the Koran approvingly: "They had both surrendered," using the verb whose noun form is the word Islam. For passing such trials, Allah tells Abraham, "Lo, I have appointed thee a leader for mankind...
...stuff with me. I have a laptop in there. That’s in the middle. I put the adapter as well as a power regulator in the top compartment. In the bottom I put my books. And for one class, say Portuguese, that could be a dictionary, a verb book and a textbook. I also usually have some spare reading material in case I get bored...
...down the hill, traboules were also used by silk merchants to store their wares and by the Resistance during World War II. Most are privately owned but open to the public - the city tourist office provides addresses and door codes. You can traboule (the word is also a verb) all over Vieux Lyons - the longest passage traverses five houses between 54 rue St. Jean and 27 rue du Boeuf...