Word: gosh
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High shelves and horrible muzak. Aisles littered with squashed grapes and spilled cornflakes. And those gosh-darned carts that never steer straight. Yep, for most of us, the experience of grocery shopping still ranks somewhere between having a tooth pulled and changing a diaper...
...gosh, I'm such a nudist, but at dinner? How long does the hookup have...
...more desperate, Mike Shanahan or Bill Parcells? The guess here is that it's Parcells, if only because his heart can't take much more of this. The final indignity -- being parodied in the effete sports page of the New York Times, for gosh sakes, drives the Tuna over the edge -- and the Jets to keep it closer than the 5 1/2 points the BRONCOS are spotting them...
...70th to 80th percentile. But the sample, like previous ones, was overwhelmingly white, Christian, educated and affluent--and not comparable to a control group of public school children. "Given the education level and affluence of the parents," observes Gerald Bracey, an educational analyst in Alexandria, Va., "you could say, 'Gosh, these kids could do better.'" Mitchell Stevens, who is writing Kingdom of Children: Pedagogy and Politics in the Home Schooling Movement for the Princeton University Press, concludes, "At worst, home schoolers are doing as well as the average public school...
...suppose that most tourists are similar around the globe, but D.C. tourists rank above travelers to any other city. People don't come to Washington to relax or catch a show or see Elvis' house. They flock to the capital to learn, celebrate America and be the best gosh darn patriotic citizens they can be--even the foreigners, which I will never understand. During their delves into American heritage, these people really appreciate D.C. as the gorgeous marble city that it is. They appear almost childlike to me. At times I even get the impression that they think wearing...