Word: possum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What kind of animal do you most resemble? I've been told that I resemble a possum and a sheepdog--because my hair is shaggy...
...week's most bizarrely charged moment came late on Friday when Ferguson cross-examined Maryanne Phillips, who had taken a bullet in the chest and played possum to avoid more. ``It was your statement that you played dead and that you were closing your eyes?'' Ferguson asked. ``I didn't want you to shoot me again,'' she replied levelly, this time staring right back at him. Afterward she said, ``It felt quite good to face the person who shot...
...have gray hair. Indeed, they're so common that they account for one in six American adults -- maybe you, maybe your mother, certainly someone you know. And if you're not in AARP, perhaps you are in the National Taxpayers' Union, the National Rifle Association or, less probably, the Possum Growers and Breeders Association. Or the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists. Or the Beer Drinkers of America -- 190,000 members strong and devoted to low beer taxes. "Almost every American who reads these words is a member of a lobby," writes Jonathan Rauch in his recent book...
Best of luck in your current endeavor. As demonstrated by your letter, your flair for romantic imagery will take you far. Just be considerate. you may call her "possum' or "kitten"--but not "roadkill kitty" and the like...
...attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Japan "perhaps the most pacifist society on earth," but no one wants to know what that might mean. They want to believe that Japan has all but rearmed, is perfectly willing to do so when the time comes, and has just been playing 'possum for the last 45 years...