Word: bashful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...girl I met at the Ice Cream Bash confirmed this hypothesis: "Harvard only uses Coke products," she complained. Yale, on the other hand, had Pepsi products. It was not political passion but simply an inflexible taste-preference that made her shun Coke. Yale...
...Poor men. A woman can bash men as loudly as she wants (as recent endpapers have so aptly demonstrated) or make as many vulgar statements as she wishes, while men stand by stifled by the gods of political correctness. The one female professor I ve had at Harvard peppered her lectures with innuendoes that would have crucified a male professor. For centuries of oppression, we can say whatever whenever and blame our lack of complete happiness and all inadequacies of society...
Having already agreed to Clinton's insistence that 62% of each year's budget surplus be set aside for Social Security, many G.O.P. members fear that pushing an across-the-board income-tax cut could lead to disaster as Democrats bash them for favoring the rich (who would benefit most from such a cut). So moderates have lined up behind a far less ambitious package of targeted, Clinton-style tax breaks crafted by Connecticut's Nancy Johnson. Senate majority leader Trent Lott, who only two weeks ago was flogging the 10% cut at a town-hall meeting in Michigan...
...Miscellaneous athletes with athletic appetites and teammates in tote" arrived to devour many of the 800 tacos. Although Feng remembers that "lots of tacos did mean lots of love," he confides to FM that Leverett's next Taco Bell study break may be an invitation-only "black-tie burrito bash;" hopefully the attire would deter eaters from using their tee-shirts as doggy bags and scooping food on the way back to their own Houses. It seems he'd prefer love from Leverites...
Somehow, Social Security reform doesn't attract the same audience. "This was our national soap opera," says neoconservative pundit Laura Ingraham. "It was our Days of Our Lives." So expect to hear more from people like Geraldo Rivera, host of a nightly CNBC talk show, who bashes Ken Starr the way he used to bash O.J. Simpson. Rivera has fed viewers an all-impeachment diet for months. Asked whether he will ever move on, he responds, "I have just begun the fight. I'm going to be talking about this next week. You have the Linda Tripp grand jury...