Word: freaked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first plane hit the World Trade Center's north tower at 8:45, ripping through the building's skin and setting its upper floors ablaze. People thought it was a sonic boom, or a construction accident, or freak lightning on a lovely fall day; at worst, a horrible airline accident, a plane losing altitude, out of control, a pilot trying to ditch in the river and missing. But as the gruesome rains came--bits of plane, a tire, office furniture, glass, a hand, a leg, whole bodies, began falling all around--people in the streets all stopped and looked...
...first plane hit the World Trade Center's north tower at 8:45, ripping through the building's skin and setting its upper floors ablaze. People thought it was a sonic boom, or a construction accident, or freak lightning on a lovely fall day; at worst, a horrible airline accident, a plane losing altitude, out of control, a pilot trying to ditch in the river and missing. But as the gruesome rains came--bits of plane, a tire, office furniture, glass, a hand, a leg, whole bodies, began falling all around--people in the streets all stopped and looked...
Students read books like the Bhagavad Gita and John Stuart Mill's On Liberty with the goal of looking at themselves and their society in new ways. The one-semester course has achieved mythic status among Jewell students. Freshmen sweat it; sophomores freak the freshmen out about it; juniors grudgingly approve of it; and seniors reflect on it as life changing...
...time when Web users are beginning to freak out about sites collecting (and hawking to others) their sensitive billing and personal information, the presumed dominance of IE6 would allow Microsoft a new chance to play the gatekeeper - this time setting its own standards for which Web sites? user-profiling "cookies" work on Web surfers and which...
...weeks ago about talking to your troubled teen--she eases her guests through moments when other hosts would prod a sore spot: "You ask [your daughter] a question," she tells a mom whose 13-year-old has been sneaking out. "She gives you an honest answer. You can't freak out at that moment." (One segment of the episode, in fact, is titled "How to Talk Without Screaming...