Word: quaintly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cans flew, the police, including some black officers, had a rough time containing things. Nonetheless, when it was over, no guns had been drawn, no arrests had been made and nobody said a word about it. To go to Mamou, then, is not to seek modernity. And nobody said quaint ever had to be pretty.) Mardi Gras in Mamou is for white boys a rite of passage, and there is something very primal and sexual about it. A boy of 16 is allowed to join in if he is accompanied by an adult; a boy of 17 can come...
...enemies also call him the Teflon President; no spills or grime can stain his radiant image. This is a useful quality. Although as king he would enjoy many quaint and archaic privileges, he would also shoulder enormous responsibilities; he would symbolize the nation. At home and abroad, disgruntled people would grumble not against America but against "King Ronald," or, rather...
...reality of this writer's beginnings was none too efficacious. Cheever was born the son of a prosperous shoe-merchant and a strong minded Englishwoman, in Wollaston, Massachusetts, in 1912. Bad deals and the depression destroyed his father and left the family dependent on the mother's quaint foreign gift shop. Young John, whose successful older brother Fred had begun at Dartmouth, found himself associating with his embittered, self-pitying father, while his mother grew increasingly distant...
...those lapses of character and taste that can turn a serious life into a pathetic farce. At 34, this precociously wise and productive British writer has pierced the intimidating exteriors of physicians, clergymen and scholars. Scandal takes on politicians, journalists, prostitutes, thugs, spies, not-so-innocent bystanders and that quaint ideal, the dutiful wife of a public figure...
Places in the polling hierarchy traditionally occupied by the overpowering-Alabama, Notre Dame, Pitt or U.S.C.-have been taken over by the middling-South Carolina, Kentucky or Washington. In its first five games, Alabama was able to beat only quaint Southwestern Louisiana, but then upset Penn State before losing to Tennessee. As bad starts go, this one went back to 1957, the year before the coming of Bear Bryant. About a month before Coach Bryant died in 1983, former Receiver Ray Perkins was selected to follow him. "From disbelief to sadness to disappointment to madness," as Perkins has described...