Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soviet Union is a different and altogether more troubling matter. In trying to redefine their own nationhood, many Russians have not yet been able to accept the idea that the 14 non-Russian republics of the U.S.S.R. are today independent foreign countries. Russian politicians have even coined a new phrase -- the near abroad -- to distinguish between the former republics and the rest of the world. The Russian sense of special rights and responsibilities in the near abroad is more than a matter of imperial postpartum depression. Some 25 million ethnic Russians live outside Russia but within the borders...
...teams. But since Marge Schott owns the Cincinnati Reds, she's probably not going anywhere. In depositions from a lawsuit filed against Schott by a former employee, several former Reds executives allege that they heard Schott refer to two players as her "million-dollar niggers." She denies using the phrase but admits using the N word. There are also charges that Schott has a swastika armband at home, but she argues that it's "memorabilia...
This feeling was strengthened this year by the AAA's political theme of "Yellow Power," a phrase which South Asian students considered to exclude members of their ethnic groups...
...prominent theme of this biography of perhaps the randiest American hero since Benjamin Franklin. J.F.K.'s model was, of course, his father, Joseph P., financier, politico and womanizer who, foreshadowing his second son's White House trysts, brought his mistress home. An old chum reports that Jack's favorite phrase was "Slam, bam, thank you, ma'am." Inga Arvad, the Danish-born journalist who was Kennedy's lover during the early 1940s, remembers "a boy, not a man, intent upon ejaculation and not a woman's pleasure." Lem Billings, Kennedy's oldest friend, is more sympathetic. "I think he wanted...
Those who watch Bush know he is pondering the meaning of existence on this planet as never before. Here and there he has muttered a phrase or two about the transience of political power and wondering what is left when it passes. He has answered his own question. What is left is the infinite tenderness and love within a caring family. He had the best. And there is irony in the fact that he may never have understood that so many others were not so blessed by Providence, and that is one of the reasons he lost this election...