Word: stoic
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...third and fifth grades to be twice skipped ahead by half-grades. By the time he reached junior high school, he was the youngest, smallest boy in the class. He felt lost, unsure of himself. With no one to turn to, he made loneliness, insecurity and a stoic acceptance of life's defeats his earliest personal themes. At the same time, he possessed a strong independent streak and grew increasingly stubborn and competitive as life and its injustices, real and imagined, piled...
Harvey, who is second in the nation with a 96.4 percent free throw average, was just as stoic and understated after the game as he was at the line...
...usually stoic atmosphere at Sanders Theatre was lifted by the acclaimed South American band Inca Son Friday night, on hand to perform a benefit concert to help restore a Peruvian church...
Emotionally stoic during a match, Martin is lithe on the court and uses her reach to pick a shuttlecock from the floor or violently put it away from on high. Badminton is an astonishing sport to watch live: fast and furious, nothing like the gentle game of summer cookouts. If anyone can raise its profile, it's this darting Dane...
...Prime Minister abruptly found himself the prime target of an infuriated nation last week when stoic Brits reached the end of their patience over extravagant fuel prices and the country ran out of gas. A mere handful of truckers and farmers--not more than 2,500--shut down the world's fourth largest economy, blockading refineries and supply depots, emptying nearly every filling station, propelling panicked buyers to strip milk and bread from market shelves, closing schools and businesses, provoking the Queen to grant Blair broad emergency powers. In the end, he didn't need them. The savvy protesters claimed...