Word: distractability
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...putting on a happy face. What keeps you going is stubbornness and righteous anger: at ugly buildings, SUVs, background music, the eminence of nonentities, at cravenness and cruelty in general and the shamelessness of this government--leading the lynching of a few corporate scapegoats to distract the mob from your own sins--the naked hypocrisy of it! If you're not brave enough to have morals when you're 72% popular, what hope is there for you? Give the bastards a hard time: that's how you get to be old. But why am I telling you, bubby? Grow...
...dozen Tokyo commuters, dire prophecy came true. On a sunny March morning in 1995, Aum members, in an apparent attempt to create mayhem and distract a police investigation into their operations, used the tips of umbrellas to puncture plastic bags filled with liquid sarin, which they left behind on five subway trains. A poisonous, invisible cloud spread through the carriages and stations. Thousands of people were made sick, and 12 died...
...nations proved that Asia had finally earned its place on the world pitch, especially South Korea, which became the first Asian side ever to make it to the semifinals. The teams' bold performances filled Asians with a pride that football has never before afforded them, and did much to distract them from their countries' stuttering economies and tiresome politics. Yet many of the World Cup's promised boons?not least, millions of extra tourist dollars?have failed to materialize. Now, Koreans and Japanese alike are beginning to ask if the psychological rewards of hosting the Cup were worth the cost...
...Japan and around the world. Asahara, its founder, was an intelligent misfit who claimed he could levitate himself and who appeared regularly on the TV talk-show circuit. Then, on a sunny March morning in 1995, followers of the doomsday cult, in an apparent attempt to create mayhem and distract police investigating their secretive chemical-manufacturing operation, quietly used the tips of umbrellas to puncture plastic bags filled with liquid sarin, which they left behind on five Tokyo subway trains. A poisonous cloud spread through the trains and stations. Thousands of commuters were sickened, and 12 people died...
...added to a paragraph in a similar vein that was already there. And while he will say that there has been some wordplay through the controversy—the speech’s title has now been changed because of a fear that having the word jihad upfront would distract the audience from the speech’s message, he says, perhaps tellingly—he does not regret his decision to go forward...