Word: denting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really love going. If you want anything having to do with science fiction, go to that store. If I had $1,000 I could spend it all in there and not make a dent--I got tons of stuff already," he says...
Such marauding influence is as yet undetected, but repeated exposure must surely dent the structure of the brain. To further our misery, the other flank is being assailed by the composite regurgitations of academe, and its sinful neologisms. Scientists have every right to spend all their time lolling in cafes thinking up fresh words: all those spanking new particles and objects have to be called something. But the sewage of cultural theory and philosophy is a pernicious influence, taking your average happy noun ('problem'), and disfiguring it with a meaningless suffix. Take a few more such words; apply prefixes...
...demands. But the fact the two sides are separated by $123,000 or 0.15 of a percentage point, weakens that argument. While this dollar amount is only per year for a three year contract, the total amount of money for that duration would not make much of a dent in the University's annual $1 billion operating budget...
...face of these shortcomings, honesty seems the best policy. What have I been hiding from myself? A relationship with Auntie Nora's pet poodle? Infatuation with my sister's lacey underwear? I fear such perversions must be deeply buried, and that much more psychobabble will be required to dent my native prudery. I get depressed sometimes--when England lose at soccer, or my bank account throttles into overdraft--but these moments hardly constitute a recipe for a session in therapy...
...bipartisan debate commission and endorsed by Bill Clinton. The challenger was scoring political points by declaring that his opponent was afraid to face him man-to-man. Bush's charges of tax-and- spend liberalism, like his aggressive attacks on Clinton's draft record, were unable to dent the Democrat's double-digit lead in the polls. But when the Clinton forces began infiltrating Bush rallies with workers dressed in yellow-feathered chicken costumes and armed with signs reading WHY WON'T CHICKEN GEORGE DEBATE?, the President lost his cool...