Word: break
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed pretty cool, if not very imaginative, and we used to hand out a lot of at the apartment and shoot the bull. I told him about some of my philosophies--he was a great listener--and encouraged him to try to break free from the mold. To demonstrate the point I showed him some woodblock prints I had done of a Lipton's Cup O' Soup...
With not more than six inches of counterspace separating us, customers will carry on intensely private conversations. That is, until I break the illusion of my non-existence by cheerfully interrupting. Grinning stupidly into their startled faces I might ask, "Do you guys really think Melissa should break up with Paul? He doesn't sound so bad." Retreating in confusion they'll scuttle down the line, conversation...
...around singing into my mop while the manager rushes about waving correction slips and time cards. Then we're in the service area, cranking out the final tasks. Both choosing the same moment to drag out an ice cream tub, we collide. Eyes bugging, faces centimeters apart, we break into a primal scream duet. Nancy joins us, and we all scream again, faces flushed, drowning out the music, and then finally collapsing into exhausted laughter. Closing time...
...being homeless, says Marshall. "I'm not out for the immediate solutions. I'm trying to get people to think about what homelessness means to the people who live it. What I'm aiming at is for people to look at the homeless in a different way, to break down stereotypes...
Americans, he continued, voted in 1968 to enter a "holding pattern." But if they remained afraid to break with their past, Wills warned that Americans would have to resist...