Word: bumped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most glaring recent example was the New Yorker cover that satirized the smears against Barack Obama and his wife. In a Dagwood sandwich of stereotypes, cartoonist Barry Blitt drew Barack (dressed in a turban) and Michelle (with an Angela Davis 'fro and an AK-47) exchanging a fist bump in the White House while a portrait of Osama bin Laden looks on and an American flag burns in the fireplace...
When my shift ends, I leave the reconstruction of the party for another day, and join the wisdom of wonks whizzing through the streets. Amid the chaos, I continually bump into friends from past campaigns, proving that D.C. really is a small town. We pencil each other in – everyone has a schedule – and catch up at dinner, probably rescheduled several times. Fellow interns tell me where they are now; former staffers lament what could have been. Some call this “networking,” but I object: I actually like these people...
...justify self-defense," the instructor told me. "Only reasonable fear." This man, a gun dealer whose whole Weltanschauung seemed largely based on his right to defend himself with lethal force if need be, was very clear on the matter: you can't go blasting away at things that go bump in the night...
...Thankfully, social repression leads to defiant counterculture in Korea, just like anywhere else. Young people flock to packed and pulsating club areas ready to bump and grind to American hits and the sounds of the immortal Korean rapper Crown J. The gay community heads off to party at “Homo Hill” in Itaewon, the international district. And wasted government officials delay their trips to “massage parlors” to accost groups of Americans and buy them rounds of whiskey bombs. (Thanks, Mr. Choo...
...take on the matter. If they had, Sullivan told TIME on June 11, he would have explained straightaway that "a lack of birth control played no part" in a quadrupling of the number of teen pregnancies at the school this year compared with last year. "That bump was because of seven or eight sophomore girls," Sullivan told TIME. "They made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together...