Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...approach the bouncer and suddenly I'm unsure of myself, my heart starts pumping a bit faster, and my fingers can't extricate my driver's license. A familiar fear washes over me, and it takes a few seconds to calm down and remember that the birthday I celebrated over intersession was The One, the day I got 10 percent off at the Pro, the day I turned 21. I'm golden...
...While Gore hammered home familiar Democratic themes of environmental protection and health care reform, he said education would be his top priority...
...view of the subject that made me take notice, but rather the familiar construction of her comments: As an X, I feel Y. Too often in academic discussions, I've heard students preface their comments this way. As a woman, I feel that Aristotle was sexist. As a white male, I feel that Malcolm X was a dangerous thinker. As an immigrant, I feel that U.S. immigration laws are unjust. My identity as an X dictates that I feel...
Lewinsky: I think it was a bond that in some ways can't be explained. I don't know how to explain it, except that I was instantly comfortable with him. There was something familiar about him to me. I think it's amazing when someone will come into your life and you have a special connection with them. I know he had remarked to me that we both had fire in our belly. And to me that's passionate. And passion has its good side, and passion has its bad side. And I think that we're both extroverted...
...Bill's Wild West Show has a long and illustrious memory lane, dominated by the legendary Ethel Merman. But the production that opened on Broadway last week--with Peters returning to the stage for the first time since The Goodbye Girl in 1993--takes a new bead on the familiar old target and hits the bull's-eye with ease...