Word: barbed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when his longtime girlfriend gave birth to their son. While James has promised to be the dad he never knew, some people are upset that he fed a stereotype: NBA players fathering out-of-wedlock children. "I was so mad at him when I found out about that," says Barb Wood, the librarian with whom James grew close, of his fatherhood. "He's just doing the same thing his mom did, having kids when she was just a kid. It's just repeating the cycle. He laughed for a few minutes when I told him he should marry his girlfriend...
What had happened, according to Sandusky County elections director Barb Tuckerman, was that in the chaos of election night, ballots had been piled on the floor and probably run through electric scanners twice. The AP quotes her as saying of election night, “It was totally hectic...
...foundation of contemporary photography. I looked at his pictures every day, sometimes for hours at a time. They never got old. There was always something I hadn't seen before, a hidden meaning right there on the surface, a new formal insight, a sudden smile, a subtle barb aimed at hypocrisy...
...pump up the portion of his stump speech that lampooned Kerry's explanation of his vote against the $87 billion to fund the U.S. occupation of Iraq. "There is nothing complicated about supporting our troops in combat," Bush said at stops in Missouri and Michigan. It was a double barb, attacking Kerry for his vote but also undercutting the assertion in his speech that what Republicans portray as a lack of constancy in him is really a more sophisticated view of the world...
...just teen and pre-tween girls taking up the sport. Women approaching middle age are the latest converts--like Barb Odanaka, 41, author of the biographical kids' book Skateboard Mom and a founder of the International Society of Skateboarding Moms. At her skate camps in San Diego, Segovia says, she sees women 14 to 40 perfect their techniques with a program of yoga, skateboarding lessons and surfing. "Mothers come with their daughters now. It's about women of all ages reaching their dreams...