Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dead end, stopped to buy some crackers and said he felt better. Shortly before 9:20 p.m., he drove toward the river again. Suddenly DeLisle felt a cramp in his right leg, which stiffened, jamming his foot against the accelerator. As he tried to hit the brake with his left foot, his shoe wedged between the pedal and the accelerator. Frantically, Suzanne grabbed for the ignition key and gearshift to stop the speeding vehicle...
...assumes you're a hooker, it's not very welcoming," says the BWTC's marketing coordinator, Trisha Cochrane. In hotel bars, the survey found, a woman alone must often wait to be served because the bartender assumes that someone will be joining her. In the meantime, she is left to fend off the attentions of other patrons at the bar. Said a respondent: "I'm tired of being chatted up by every lonely salesman in Britain...
Sununu puckishly allows, "I have been known to ask provocative questions." His bad-cop act has the President's support, but Sununu has drawn fire from Congress and has left some staffers afraid to voice unpopular advice in his presence. Many consult more easily with Sununu's own good cop, deputy to chief of staff Andrew Card. Colleagues were relieved when Card decided to stay at the White House rather than run for Governor of Massachusetts...
...roommate's stepfather Marty has a favorite piece of advice for young women: All men are slime until proven otherwise. After helping my roommate move her things into our first-year dorm room, he left us with those ominous words, which we promptly immortalized on our common room bulletin board...
Those who tried to explain why the media failed to scrutinize Jackson were left tongue-tied. Put simply, some feared that criticism of a Black leader was comparable to condemnation of the entire race. If we criticize Jackson, thought many journalists, it might be construed as racism...