Word: hideous
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Kansas City seemed the place to be for Opening Day, if only because the twin virtues of Ripken and real grass harken back to a time before the hideous words work stoppage entered sports parlance. Unfortunately for the Royals, only 24,170 fans felt that way, some 16,000 fewer than usually attend Opening Day. It was drizzly, to be sure, but the weather wasn't as off-putting as the baseball climate. The game lost many fans during the bitter "work stoppage," and there were similarly disappointing crowds elsewhere last week...
...sure, but devoid of greater meaning. Earlier generations were more impressionable. As proof that the mountains were possessed by the devil, the learned physicist and mathematician Johann Jacob Scheuchzer in 1702 compiled an encyclopedic list of dragon sightings in the Alps. (Mons Pilatus was said to harbor a particularly hideous monster, with a head "that terminated in the serrated jaw of a serpent...
What is especially hideous and dangerous about this form of racism is that it can be practiced subtly. A respected investigative journalist claimed in a television interview last night that the Arab American community must do more to contain the violent element that resides in its midst. That comment captures the tenor of the majority of the anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiments that can be found everywhere...
Dumb, exhausting, hurtful, hideous--at one time or another, the people seeking the White House in 1996 have used such words to describe the brutal process to which they have given over the next 20 months of their lives. By the time it's over, the polls will again discover a collective disenchantment, and many will wonder if there isn't a better way. Well there may be, but not this time. Two centuries ago, Alexander Hamilton wrote that the nation's new system of governance assured that choosing a President would rest on the candidates' "requisite qualifications" rather than...
...hideous insult to the reasonable expectations of the people of this city to be forced to accept an incomplete hardware solution as a permanent fixture on the cityscape," Rizzo said in an interview yesterday...