Word: freak
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Democratic Party is having one of its periodic freak-outs. John McCain has pulled ahead in a few polls, and the party's many doom-and-gloomers are fretting that Barack Obama is frittering away a can't-lose election, lagging behind generic Democrats in a generic Democratic year. They worry that he's too professorial, too nuanced, too dispassionate, too above-the-fray cool. They want him to run straight at McCain's distortions, throw some fastballs, show voters he's a scrapper. They fear that his message of change has grown stale, that his efforts to paint McCain...
...stadium with his wife, the 1976 Olympic champion Nadia Comaneci, to catch the competition. "In our era, you could do one or two difficult moves, then fill out the rest of your routine with things you are comfortable doing. Now you have to be a freak of nature to be able to do a world-class routine." While gymnastics has always been an injury-prone sport, the new hurdles created by the scoring system may be pushing some athletes too far. Peszek strained an ankle earlier this week during a warm-up just minutes before the team marched...
...seat you next to the men's room. My all-time favorite move was to tell people that their credit card was experiencing difficulties. A lot of people in this area are very status-conscious, so when all their friends hear their card has been declined, they kind of freak out. All passive-aggressive stuff. It's a deterrent...
They do. [They say], "And then I went to my mom and said, Look, this is the girl who wrote your favorite songs. So I can't be that big a freak." And that's pretty cool. That's a nice effect to have had, to create a bond through your music. The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work...
...grows out of his braces and that awful acne, but for now he's content to muse on his misfit fate. Hannah, whose artistic impulses alienate her from her classmates, has dreams of moving to San Francisco to study film. But even more, she just wants to get the freak out of town...