Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...juicy story line that usually comes with takeovers among media moguls is showing up in all corners of American industry these days. In fact, while the buzz is with Ted (Turner) and Larry (Tisch), the guys who are throwing real money around in their bids to consolidate belong to such unglitzy businesses as railroads and banks. Now it can be said: the '90s were never meant to be the decade of small appetites...
...neat place to visit -- a lovers' lane accessible from a killer drag strip -- but hell to live through. Each movie revives the battles between tough guys and sweet chicks; each recalls hot sex before the pill and those enduring teen compulsions: to rebel and to belong...
While I am not a Brendan Fraser fan, I do know that he does not belong in this movie, which shows Chris Farley slam dancing in a Los Angeles club. Brendan Fraser would fit in better ballroom dancing at a country club than in a slam-dancing neo-grunge club...
Leopold has been psychologically destroyed by his work, like the man in Havel's essay, "An Anatomy of Reticence," who experiences "the first moment of deterioration...when [his] artefact, [his] project for a better world, begins to expropriate his responsibility and identify, when the abstraction ceases to belong to him and he instead begins to belong...
...Standard English, but it has enlivened the language for centuries. It is so deeply embedded in the daily life of Americans that no amount of bad-mouthing or mouthwashing by box-headed double-domes, drelbs, brainos and chuckleheads can give it the bum's rush. Though it does not belong in "correct" literary or conventional usage, except when employed for effect, it is wonderfully expressive and endlessly inventive...