Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mankiw said that the huge advance has not changed...
...This weekend was huge," said junior defender Jaime Chu. "It gave us the concrete results that we are a great team. The confidence boost...
Alcohol is still a cause of staggering devastation. It kills 100,000 Americans a year--not only from disease but also from accidents. In 1996, 41% of all U.S. traffic fatalities were alcohol related. It causes huge economic losses and untold suffering. Why, then, do the Bud frogs get to play the Super Bowl while Joe Camel goes the way of the Marlboro...
...guess what? The kid can write. Like Jackson Pollock with a paint tube, Stone squeezes the pus and purple out of his gaudy youth. The book is like a huge scenario from some gifted, twisted lad--Oliver Stone, age 20--that the older Stone chopped down and published. But the two are eerie twins. They share the need to go too far, to push the vocabulary of words and pictures. The young Stone even envisions himself in the '90s, a zillionaire aswirl in controversy. "Of course many rumors abounded about me, mostly sinister...
...find no fewer than seven pages of entries devoted to the wretched N word. Its earliest recorded use, in 1574, was spelled niger, early modern English meaning "black in color." There was a time--hard to believe--that the term was considered inoffensive. Over the years, it evolved a huge number of variations, all pejorative, but not, apparently, until the 20th century did it become so execrable a term of opprobrium, especially among whites. Ironically, as Lighter says, many blacks use the N word as an "affectionate, ironic, jocular, or occasional complimentary epithet...