Word: ah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ah, the blessings of a growing economy! Especially if you happen to be a Governor or a state legislator. It makes it possible to forget all that fiscal-stringency stuff that caused so much trouble the past few years and start cutting taxes again -- just in time for this year's state elections...
...Savant: "Ah, I'm skating on thicker ice here. Cavities ((correct)), nearsightedness ((correct)) and I think a missing patellar reflex might indicate what Grandma used to call 'housemaid's knee' ((wrong...
...Ah, summer, Professors go on vacation, administrators take long weekends and most undergraduates are either out of the area or absorbed in jobs...
...ah, his friends, and oh, his foes, he gave a lovely light! In works like A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, Brando mobilized a raw and unprecedented behavioral truthfulness; heedlessly, he challenged the blandness and piety of the times. If you were young with pretensions to hipness, he seemed to speak your thoughts. And he drove the old Eisenhower crowd nuts. But what we read then as rebelliousness was really confusion. Brando had a stern, cold father and a dream-disheveled mother -- both alcoholics, both sexually promiscuous -- and he encompassed both their natures without resolving the conflict. Elia...
...This man is a star," Carlos said by way of greeting the investigating magistrate, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, in his bunker-like quarters at the Palais de Justice. "We are both professionals. We'll get along together." Gesturing toward the assault rifles carried by his four police escorts, Carlos bantered, "Ah! The FA-MAS. We had those in Lebanon. They're good." Though it was a display of insouciance for a man about to be charged with complicity in a 1982 car bombing that killed a pregnant woman and wounded 63 others, there was no masking the tired image Carlos...