Word: blushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history. Nancy Reagan, not exactly known for her intellect, was only able to offer the nation the insipid slogan "Just Say No." And Barbara Bush did nothing of substance until her panicking husband trotted her out to speak at the 1992 Republican national convention. Even George Bush had to blush at this desperate and embarassing attempt to jumpstart his campaign...
Though there are only 21 of them, they are being stroked, wooed and courted by all sides till they blush. They even have talks going with the various factions of the House Republican freshman class--a dialogue that California Democrat Gary Condit describes as "very enlightening to us. They're not as rigid as they're portrayed to be." As the White House negotiations broke down, Armey announced that the Republican leadership was ready to turn to Plan B. The scheme: if they couldn't cut a deal with Clinton, they would turn to the Blue Dogs to come...
...always wanted to own my own fish market, and now I want to live up to that dream." The couple is set to wed. Once off crack, Jones explains with a sidelong glance at Mayes, "I finally saw what a beautiful woman she is." "Don't mind if I blush," says Mayes, breaking out in a broad grin and bouncing her pig-tailed one-year...
...thrilling, to grownups is the sheer volume of its usages, all of them duly authenticated with citations and examples. None of them--Darn it!--can be spelled out here (although some periodicals, notably the New Yorker, erstwhile doyenne of classy writing, print the word nowadays without a blush...
CAPTAIN SCOTT O'GRADY HAD THE grace to blush when America welcomed him home with the kind of publicity once lavished on Douglas MacArthur. O'Grady had eaten grass and ants for six days of adventurous Bosnian discomfort...