Word: ism
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...WITH YOU ONCE WHEN YOUR FANS SORT OF GOT OUT OF HAND. YOU SAID, "WELL, WHEN YOU SIGN ON, YOU SIGN ON FOR THE WHOLE RIDE." WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXPAND ON THAT A LITTLE? It's just, you know, a trail boss--ism. I used to get a kick out of actors who'd have 10 minutes of fame and they'd start going, "Oh, my God, I can't stand this, and I don't really like it and I just wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to really be successful...
...Koran at age 5. He absorbed the conservative traditions of the Islamic seminaries in Qum, where he arrived as a 19-year-old prodigy. Three years later, he left to study in the Iraqi city of Najaf, the prestigious 1,000-year-old home to some of Shi'ism's most prominent teachers of jurisprudence; he has lived there ever since. Najaf's schools were filled with as many Persians as Arabs. Sistani never lost his thick native accent and remains an Iranian citizen, which has made him a target of Arab rivals like al-Sadr who disparage his ethnicity...
...year when, as the editors wrote, “above all else loomed the issue of McCarthy, the senator and the ism,” Pusey emphasized adopting a faith appropriate to the realities of the twentieth century...
...proper dress was to avoid expulsion. But from the ashes of the “rolling cape square” rose a new class of stylish males, the precursors to today’s fashion plates and metrosexuals. Along with a mantra of fashion alpha male-ism, these early males were influenced by the traditional drive for perfection which already pervaded the athletic fields, music halls and classrooms of Old Harvard...
...thought they were trying to teach you about existentialism or modernism or chemistry…ism. Nope, they weren’t. You see, sections are all just a subconscious effort to increase your awareness about Harvard sports and Ivy League athletics in general. Either that or I’m just really bored...