Word: quaintly
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...written for children," she has said. "It is my experience that no book that children like is ever for children." Her commitment to childhood reveals itself in her devotion to fable and legends, to the elemental thought of the east, to all that is strange, new, and quaint, and to old customs--especially Christmas, childhood's most glorious moment. Just before I left she typed out a Christmas poem and gave...
...keeps. At every government gathering, hard-faced army officers monitored the overly jolly goings on. Even President Sukarno, puffy-cheeked and perspiring, was forced onto the defensive. Warning against the danger of Indonesia's suddenly becoming pro-Western (and anti-Sukarno), he pursued one of his own quaint theories to its illogical conclusion: "If they didn't try to crush us, the Western powers wouldn't be nekolim" (a Sukarno acronym for neocolonialist imperialism...
...remote past, America's prevailing political philosophy held with Lincoln that government should do for the people only those necessary things that the people could not do for themselves. That notion now seems hopelessly quaint. Today's generations take it for granted that the U.S. Government is simply bursting with good deeds to perform for the individual, whether strictly necessary or not. But no man of mortal mind can know of everything that Washington is ready and willing...
...Micheline, which looks out on ruined citadels, deserted villages and scarred forests. Once rich in timber (pine, chestnut, cork trees), Corsica has been hard-hit by forest fires. Population has drained from 300,000 in the 1870s to 170,000 today. Ajaccio, the capital, is a cluster of quaint but quaking buildings, though a scattering of new apartments is rising beyond the old perimeter...
...though he may have settled down physically, he hardly settled down to a quaint life of wondering about the nature of God and worrying about the lack of enthusiastic interest in the four part Sunday afternoon seminars on God and man at Yale...