Word: hating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things that their guys do well, they did," said Princeton Coach Bill Carmody. "It was like, Clemente, open shot, bang! Beam, open shot, bang! This is a senior team, and I hate playing senior teams because they're used to these kinds of games. They handled themselves extremely well, as evidenced by the overtime...
...then there are the homeless in the Square. We rarely give money. We hate it when they open the door to CVS for us, because we'll feel obligated to give on the way out. "She tells you to have a nice day to make you feel guilty." "He was wearing a Nautica jacket and begging for change. What's up with that?" "He smells." "She's fat." I have heard worse, often from the very same students who rave about their public service programs. In those moments, I know Harvard students do not care about the poor...
Nobody needs to be told what to hate about this year, what made us flinch or groan, change the channel, fling the magazine across the room. Generations of scholars yet unborn will read shelves of books yet unwritten trying to figure out what went wrong in America in 1998 and why. So maybe it's the lazy luxury of relief, now that it's over, to look at what might have gone right and toast the new era with a glass half full...
Mine is an outrage uncontaminated by ideology. I voted for Clinton in 1992, and basically agree with his instinct for the commonsense center of American politics. I am not a vast right-winger, and I do not hate Arkansas. My contempt wells up from an irrational, nonpolitical source. It reciprocates something that I sense at Clinton's core--what must be an essential contempt for the American people...
...HATE REPORTERS, BUT LOVE THE ROLE...