Word: phobic
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...whose dominant theme seems to be 'You don't need soap, America! Look at us! Soap-free for almost three weeks and we're surviving just fine!' This is just not the way we wanted to usher in what we thought had the potential to be a maniacally germ-phobic new century...
...people outside this culture understand very much about them--not their unnerved teachers, not the phobic journalists who write about them, not the politicians who prattle on about Web porn...
...piece, which said "the Bush plan at least moves in the Reagan direction and realizes that taxpayers who built the current boom need incentives to keep it going." Bush, who trails John McCain in recent New Hampshire polls, should score major points among the state's famously tax-phobic Republicans...
...chalk some of this up to the Baby-Sitter Problem. Think about it. What kind of maladjusted, alienated, socially phobic loser would be available to baby-sit on the millennial New Year's Eve? Would you leave your kids with a misanthropic freak who can't scrounge up a date or a party invite on the biggest New Year's Eve of all time...
When the notoriously travel-phobic Kubrick invited the couple to his house in the English countryside, they were surprised to find a warm family man, not the weird hermit of the press clippings. Cruise and Kubrick, both pilots (though Kubrick refused to fly later in life), ended up debating the effect of aviation on World War II. "Stanley was not what you expected. He was very open," says Cruise...