Word: never
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the 50-year-old immigrant was represented by two lawyers who had never handled an anti-discrimination case before, Harvard hired the venerable Boston law firm Ropes & Gray to assist in their defense...
...girl is gang-banged in the backseat of a car, and the hero's big victory is spoiled by the fact that he doesn't deserve it. But mostly this is a cheery pop-rocket that lights up the stage the way disco lit up the '70s. And disco never got much respect either...
...This was an easier book to write than my autobiography. [Before I won a World Series] you had to find reasons why you were a winner, even though you never wore a World Series ring...
...want our pols real, genuine. Phony is out. Look at Lamar Alexander. This year, unlike in '96, he skipped the plaid shirts and the exclamation mark, but the artifice still rankled. He's gone, as is Elizabeth Dole with her syrupy smile. G.O.P. consultant Frank Luntz says he's never seen such low tolerance for packaging...
Even children do it. Told that a man likes to wug, they will say yesterday he wugged. Children are not sponges; they're constantly creating sentences and words, never more clearly or charmingly than when they encounter the second flavor of verb, the quirky irregulars. The past tense of spring is sprang, but the past of cling is not clang but clung, and the past of bring is neither brang nor brung but brought. English has 180 irregulars, a ragtag list that kids simply must memorize...