Word: erect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first burst of suburbanization in the post-World War II era was made possible by guaranteed home loans for veterans and government subsidies for highway construction. The final and shattering blow came during the 1980s, when developers flush with government - guaranteed loans from savings and loan associations helped erect clusters of industrial parks and research-and-develop ment centers along the beltways that ring many central cities...
...very concerned that the Concerned Christians' exclusion of homosexuals from their understanding of what constitutes a good Christian must surely erect barriers between them and many people...
...quarter of the nation's power needs. Such figures have re-energized the manufacturers of wind-power equipment and attracted the interest of foreign competitors. Utilities are conducting wind surveys and starting pilot projects. And a new breed of wildcatter is scurrying to buy up wind rights -- licenses to erect what may be the oil wells of tomorrow...
What is longer than the fully erect ego of a movie director determined to make a "statement"? The patience, obviously, of movie executives determined to indulge his or her imperious auteurship. And the inordinate length of the movies now trying our patience. The good (JFK) would be better, the so-so (The Prince of Tides) greatly improved, and the bad (Hook) less tiresome if everyone would learn to get on and off in under two hours. Give us a break, guys...
...evening: Was the phone she used to call the police a touch-tone? If so, were the buttons in the receiver or the handset? Why do you now say that you fell when you were grabbed by Smith while you previously told the police that you 'stumbled'? Exactly how erect was Smith's penis...