Word: idea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...season for me to be worrying about what to get my little sister for Christmas, which is always a tricky business, because it has to be good. This year I've settled on some CDs I think she'll like. It's not the most original or unusual idea, but I'm actually very pleased with it, because Christmas, like all gift-giving occasions, is an opportunity for indoctrination. My sister is a young and impressionable 15, and I can't quite resist the temptation to make her into a little version of me--a project toward which...
Looking into the post, where there are tall targets to pass to, is a great idea, but soft lobs that don't quite get there won't do the job. But if the guards continue to lob it in, then the post players have to make up for it by meeting the ball...
Twice, when talking about pork-barrel spending and mistreatment of American Indians, McCain feigned horror at the idea of losing his temper, a joking reference to those reporters who have questioned his emotional stability...
Above all, they want to be seen as originals. "Do not think we're trying to copy anyone," Harris warns, recalling the school shootings in Oregon and Kentucky. They had the idea long ago, "before the first one ever happened...
...some of the families of the dead children of Columbine, the very idea of "closure" is an insult and a hoax. There can never be closure for them. "To say that we want to move on and put this behind us, that's not true," says Brian Rohrbough, whose son Daniel was among the first to die. There is still too much pain and too many questions, and even if the answers come, their children will never come back, and nothing will be the same again...