Word: blurt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When I pick up the receiver in order to make a call and I hear a conversation already going on, I am unable to suppress an instinctive urge to blurt out "Oops, sorry." I fully realize that my roommates are likely to mistake that utterance for the call-waiting tone and that I therefore frequently cause them to accidentally hang up on their friends. I can't help it, though...
...this is not to say that the second you decide you are not romantically inclined toward someone you should just blurt it out. Each person has his or her own timing and reason. But, instead of riding on an emotional roller coaster of guilt and romantic disinterest, it is better to be true to one's sentiments...
Meanwhile, another former Republican President, Richard Nixon, urged Bush to stop his staff from contrasting his hands-on energy with Reagan's well-known sloth and detachment. Bush, whose politeness is legendary, was furious that anyone on his payroll would blurt such disrespectful truths. One senior Bushman who had also worked for Reagan felt obliged to write to Nancy Reagan (with a copy to President Bush) denying he had bad-mouthed her husband...
...penalties." Oklahoma's sentence for being caught on 20 varieties of recruiting violations includes a year's television blackout and two missed bowl opportunities (consider the potential revenue lost: just one Orange Bowl appearance is worth $2.75 million a team). The punishment prompted Oklahoma athletic director Donnie Duncan to blurt, "They wanted us, and they got us." Calmly, Schultz replied that he sensed "a certain amount of paranoia there...
...these dangers exist; and until recent weeks the ensuing unspoken policy has been for Americans to keep as stony-faced as palace guards whenever Israel does something that we do not like. Either that, or to blurt out some whiny silliness as Woody Allen did on the New York Times op-ed page in January, detailing a comedian's personal distress over a complicated international tragedy. Allen's plaint encouraged equally irrelevant counteraccusations of Jewish self-hate but this time did not reinstate the old cautionary mode. Unswervingly pro-Israel publications such as the New Republic, several Jewish organizations...