Word: blushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saturday night the Harvard women's basketball team administered a beating that would've made the LAPD blush...
...white folks have a choice. We can keep pretending that welfare is a black program and a scheme for transferring our earnings to the pockets of shiftless, dark-skinned people. Or we can clear our throats, blush prettily and admit that we are hurting too -- for cash assistance when we're down and out, for health insurance, for college aid and all the rest...
...will admit: the surge of righteous anger, even the fun -- for those inclined -- of wearing sheets and burning crosses. But there are better, nobler sources of white pride, it seems to me. Remember, whatever they say about our music or our taste in clothes, only we can truly, deeply blush...
...hang out" is now running a close second. It's hard to find a national consensus on confidentiality in a nation of tell- all memoirs, inquiring pollsters and talk shows -- not to mention televised Senate hearings -- whose participants air explicit sexual details that would have caused earlier generations to blush and turn away...
...clear rhetorical model, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cuomo has not done anything creative--not for social programs, where his spending is generally generous but his innovations negligible, and not in taxing, where he's maintained the status quo. (His prison-building record could make Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) blush, though.) He's called by friend and foe alike an "incrementalist"--not a true reformer...