Huff Vocab Unit 1

Matt Kaiser, a former public defender in Greenbelt and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University, applauded Holder for talking about “mass incarceration.”

As the nation’s largest bank by assets, JPMorgan is typically looked at as a bellwether for the broader banking industry.

So what minor incident will trigger a spate of pious handwringing and sanctimonious caterwauling this evening?

It is clear that life has soured for him, his youthful hopes have proved chimerical, his mother’s dire warnings revealed as painful prophecy. New York Times (Mar 24, 2010)

Luigi Tadini, Paper magazine’s marketing director, an effete 28-year-old with combed back James Dean locks, dangling cigarette and skinny frame, played host. New York Times (Sep 14, 2011)

But the news that the pending free agent has switched agents to Scott Boras makes it practically a fait accompli. Seattle Times (Oct 2, 2010)

We have had well-organised, ineffective institutions – hidebound bureaucracies, corruption-riddled basket-case police states, rigid military units that are cut to ribbons by nimble guerrillas.

Then there are the sadly common abuses of hierarchy — the doctor denigrating a nurse, the medical student treated like disposable goods.

The more laissez-faire American economy, by contrast, tends to fire workers in large numbers during downturns, then recycles them back in when things turn around. BusinessWeek (Oct 11, 2012)

At this year's triennial convention, being held in Indianapolis, the church's leadership is also due to consider approving a liturgy for same-sex weddings.

Osama bin Laden is dead and the Iraq war over, but Afghanistan remains a morass and the prison at Guantánamo Bay remains open.

Noisome legislative deals, heretofore blanketed by respectability, were laid bare in exposed horror. Lyman, Olin L.

Children splashed around, oblivious to the looming threat.

"Kiss me!" he repeated, feeling poltroon and idiotic. Hughes, Rupert

The former bishop had long been dead, and his successor seemed bent on gaining proselytes by every possible means. Kingston, William Henry Giles

Hence, Mr. Rachbini said, quasi- socialist policies like low-cost gasoline are needed to maintain stability, given Indonesia’s high levels of poverty.

Dinner that night, though a late one, was an occasion of boisterous good-fellowship, the two happy Pony Rider Boys coming in for much good-natured raillery. Patchin, Frank Gee

His books are accessible, with plenty of characters, action and melodrama, and written in colloquial, and at times ribald, language.

Supine sleeping also closes the airways, leading to oxygen deprivation, which raises blood pressure.

“Harvest” serves up colorful vignettes about farm life but leaves the reader wondering if the author missed some bigger story. Seattle Times (Dec 27, 2012)