Word: hankering
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...stallion badly in need of a gelding. There is Buddy Crawford, a sleazy trainer who cares more about winning than about the horses (even after he finds Jesus), and Farley Jones, who adheres to The Tibetan Book of Thoroughbred Training ("Do not see any fault anywhere...Do not hanker after signs of progress"). There are the rich owners, desperate to get their playthings to the Breeders' Cup, and the struggling breeders, the jockeys and the horse masseurs. And above all, there are the races, riveting set pieces that Smiley creates with a passion that cannot help being infectious...
...what I really want to ask Leary is this: Do you hanker to wring your wife's treacherous neck? Finally, after three-quarters of the visiting hour has passed, the prisoner is escorted in. After devoting most of our talk to Spit, I finally get up the gumption to ask my question. "By the way, Tim, I don't mean to pry, but ... what's happening with your new, you know, since you last...
Beginning in the late 1800s, however, people seemed to hanker for history and tradition. Statues of Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant rose in every town and hamlet. In 1907, 20,000 spectators came to see a Jefferson Davis monument dedicated in Richmond. The first of many colonial revivals in design was under way. Historical pageants flourished...
...Aquino why Filipinos hanker for another strongman so soon after Marcos' departure, and she demonstrates her tolerance: "The problem with some of our people is that they would like to have the best of both worlds. They would like me to have some dictatorial powers, with everybody else living under a democracy...
Economic instability in Argentina inevitably brings worries that the military, which ran the country with brutal inefficiency from 1976 to 1983, might hanker for another turn at power. Those fears were heightened last week when the army chief, General Isidro Caceres, warned that "the army is worried about the economic situation." For Menem, the best way to keep the soldiers at bay and serve out his full six-year term would be to set a course for economic stability and then hold firm to it. In Argentina that is no easy task...