Word: bum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gingrich's carefully crafted references to family morality, neither divorcing a wife nor leaving your children draws any criticism. Rather, what's wrong is for men not to "support" their children: "Any male who does not take care of his children is a bum and deserves no respect." Presumably, Gingrich is talking about financial support. Thus the moral of the story is: men with money (likely Republican voters) are free to move from wife to wife, but poorer men (unlikely Republican voters) are not. If some underclass man dumps a wife, he's a cause of America's festering moral...
Brown, Known affectionately as"Winnie-some-Bum" within her family, has amazedrelatives with a continuing string of successesdating back to adolescence...
PETE WILSON Bid for G.O.P. White House nomination held owing to bum throat...
...covered with ti-tree scrub. He had a scraggy beard and bright, China-blue eyes. His manners were polite and distant. He wasn't engaged in some Gauguin-based fantasy. He was simply living the way that suited him best, free from attachment. The locals thought he was a bum, a castaway, but his talent made him a queer and upright old aristocrat...
...favor of passively causing their extinction. Other objections could come from merchants, who would prefer the simplicity of credit transactions to the tedium of processing coupons. Some merchants might protest against honoring the coupons at all; that fancy French restaurant probably doesn't want to serve the poor bum who saved up hundreds of food coupons for one glorious meal. In addition, the federal government would have to print up unforgeable coupons (though in much smaller numbers) just as it had previously printed bills...