As she weeps through each answer, describing each blow of the police baton, I think of Blair holidaying in Tuscany at the expense of Berlusconi.
So when, in 1928, a British physicist called Paul Dirac solved such an equation relating to the electron, the fact that one answer described the opposite of that particle might have been brushed aside as a curiosity.
The blue test booklet, stamped with the imprint of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and distributed this morning to 10th-grade classrooms throughout the state, contained a lone essay question that students had two hours to answer: describe why a supporting character in a favorite novel was essential to the plot.
Described in terms of length, we get one answer; described in terms of volume, we get another.
After idle chatter about the weather, the question arises, "So, what do you do?" Quickly realizing that in this setting your interrogator does not need to hear about how you label test tubes, run gels, and pipette all day long, you slide into your standard answer describing your research to the nonscientist.
The ad that he answered described a West Coast rust-free truck.
The daughter answered, describing in highly technical terms her father's diagnosis and therapies, and eventually his demise.
In most respects, Ms. Kennedy's answers described views similar to those of other New York Democrats, including New York's senior senator, Charles E. Schumer, and Mrs. Clinton.
Maybe I'm slow on the uptake, but it took me a few seconds to realize that not only were the theme entries anagrams of their clues, but all of the answers describe anagramming (yes, including ANAGRAMMED at 57 Across).
This selection problem was unsuccessfully handled by inviting the non-responders to answer a few questions describing their characteristics, but only 711 (10.9%) responded the phone call and the questions answered described the sub-sample insufficiently.
