Word: rub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children. His parents made a comfortable living running a general store founded by his great-grandfather, who emigrated from the Spanish province of Galicia in 1870. His father, Serafin, was a fervent supporter of the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War, and that sense of commitment seemed to rub off on his son. Says Alfonsin: "I came from a home atmosphere where liberty was not only learned from books...
Reveling in the thrill of victory, native Australian Alan Fekete commented, "We'll probably just rub their faces in the dirt and leave it at that...
...curious landscape of clashing images, this zone of hay and Harvard graduates, of pigs and Porsches, of pancake breakfasts and imported cheeses? This is ruburbia, a geographical mezzanine between the rural and the suburban. Ruburbs are small country towns barely within commuting distance of city centers, where agrarian values rub-and sometimes chafe- elbows with middle-class attitudes. They are tucked away in numerous places across the American landscape, from the sun-dried valleys east of Los Angeles to the wooded hills west of Boston. Once the ruburbs were self-contained farming communities, but the prohibitively pricey real estate...
...many of the new arrivals cling to their ethnic identity, preserving their customs and language, nurturing old prejudices (the Japanese look down on Koreans), developing new ones (Koreans look down on blacks and chicanos). Whole neighborhoods seem to rub up against each other without mixing...
...pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies." We now have animals organized into phylum, class, order, family, genus, and sppcies, but even in this age of home computers it is difficult to talk about reading, eating and sex in any ordered manner. Inter-texte, Friction rub, Ring or mousse makes at least as much sense as Florentine, Frozen, Identification, Lima beans and. But the second should go together while the first should not. The tables of contents from Le Plaisir du texte and from The Joy of Sex are not only in alphabetical order...