Word: bracingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...look like it's all going to rest on a single state. McCain has an uphill battle in a bunch of states. Going into the 2000 election, it was tight all over the place." True enough. But fair or not, when things get tight in Florida, Americans instinctively brace for a car wreck and its long-lasting damage...
...Dude #1 - director Charles Stone, who also created the original ad - says, instead, that he's "Lost my home. Lookin' for a job." Wassup Dude #2, calling from a slightly inexplicable battlefield payphone, is "Still in Iraq. Watchin' my ass." Their uninsured buddy has an arm cast and neck brace and needs "money for painkillers." A four-eyed Dookie, still in front of the computer, is watching his stock portfolio tank; Intercom Guy, who shows up at the end of the first commercial with a six-pack of Budweiser, is clinging to the doorway in the teeth of a violent...
...comforting people about their current situation and reassuring them it will get better. It's telling them that the situation is likely to get worse and that only their efforts can determine how soon it will start getting better. Astringent leadership is Churchill calling on Britons to "brace ourselves to our duties...
...Senate in ’06 as happenstance, chanced upon because “the positions they campaigned on are in line with mainstream America.” Instead of counting their blessings for what went right, she says, Democrats should focus on what could have gone wrong and brace for the struggle the ’08 race is likely to be. “So far,” Huffington writes, liberals “have shown little stomach for that fight.”So Huffington “goes on the offensive” for them...
...also designed to brace me for a human situation that is far more complicated than your typical residents' gripes over municipal services or talk-show outrage about minority rights. And different than the other immigration stories I was seeing. Get ready, Claudio seemed to be saying, to be both appalled and surprised...