Word: blurting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that they're listening in, which is why you hear, "This call is being monitored for quality assurance." But there's no such protection for staff members. Bosses monitor calls with programs like Nice Systems', which sends an alert if your voice reaches a certain decibel level or you blurt out profane language or a competitor's name...
...find yourself. Gibson has begun, he says, "an ongoing program of recovery" for his alcoholism, but he also needs to seek help from a religious or mental health counselor in understanding what made him blurt out comments to an arresting officer like "the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." "This anger spewed from a depth somewhere," says Dale Olson, who was once a publicist for Rock Hudson and Steve McQueen. "He's got to wring his hands and ask himself, 'Why did I do this...
...Occasionally blurt out T.S. Eliot poems...
...time her teacher asks the 19 squirmy first-graders in her suburban Philadelphia public school to match letters of the alphabet to the sounds they make. Sitting up front with her pinchable cheeks framed by long blond hair, Abby, 7, looks as eager as any of her classmates to blurt out an answer. But every time the teacher calls on her, Abby freezes. Her face tightens. She strains to respond. And even if an answer manages to get past her lips, her words are inaudible. She's effectively mute throughout the school day--even at recess, where the closest...
...just watching a football game and getting flashed by a singer's breast. It's the unwanted porn e-mail or the hamburger commercial with a woman lasciviously riding a mechanical bull. It's watching a sports program with your young child and hearing the host blurt, "A______!" Tim Tutt, a single, third-grade teacher in Des Moines, calls himself "a liberal, anticensorship person." But he was furious when he visited a website for his students and up popped an ad with a sexy blond. "Boy, did I lose control of the class for a moment," he says. "Then...