Word: grown
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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People exercise all the time, but somehow we've still grown larger. Yes, well, once upon a time people worked physically a lot harder, unless they were kings and princesses. Even schoolkids used to use their bodies a lot more. There was a time once when kids walked to school. That never happens anymore, because the parents are so freaked out by potential child snatchers that they won't let them...
Barack Obama spoke to a kind of change that resonated with Americans. They have grown weary not just of the type of politics we've seen but also of how politics has gotten in the way of solving real problems. In this campaign, voters have always known the stakes were very high...
Some students have embraced Harvard’s squash obsession whole-heartedly: “It’s nice to have different options from locally-grown sources,” Kelly A. Evans ’10 says. Evans’ favorite HUDS variety is Delicata Squash...
...world today. And the mounting economic crisis only makes the construction of a wider identity - and conversing across the waters - more urgent, not less so. I happened to be in Alaska the week Sarah Palin was introduced to the world, and around me I saw the America I had grown up on: full of open space and possibility, blessed with great oil reserves and immigrants from everywhere, scenically gorgeous - but tied to the go-it-alone spirit of a "last frontier." It looked as much like the America of my boyhood as Hawaii and the burger joint looked like...
...dangerous radical who hung out with terrorists. Simply by seeming sober and sensible, he both reassured voters and diminished McCain, whose attacks suddenly seemed disingenuous. A New York Times survey found that people who changed their views on Obama were twice as likely to say they had grown more favorable, not less; those who now saw McCain differently were three times as likely to say their view had worsened than had improved. And that was after the markets had shed a couple of trillion dollars. By mid-October, only 1 in 3 voters thought McCain would bring the country...