Word: rub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hopefully, what I've learned and know will rub off." Smith said. "I hope to be an inspiration and motivator like Maura. I'm really excited about coaching at Harvard...
Officially, of course, the shortage has not really endangered people's lives. "Often the level of T.L.C. that a patient expects -- the back rub, the hand holding -- doesn't get done in today's intense environment," says Allan Anderson, president of Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. "But I don't think there is any evidence that the quality of hospital care has deteriorated...
...only Black person in the Norwegian town inwhich she stayed, Michel said some local residentscut off samples of her hair to examine whileothers tried to rub off the darkness of her skin...
...campaign commercials and TV sound bites. All that matters is Little Iowa, a mythical state with a population smaller than Alaska's, a tiny political universe of roughly 110,000 Republicans and 100,000 Democrats likely to attend the caucuses on a cold Monday night in February. The rub, of course, is that the residents of Little Iowa are inconveniently sprinkled across the 55,941 sq. mi. of Big Iowa, indistinguishable from their neighbors by any characteristics save their political commitment and, perhaps, the presence of their name on a campaign's canvass list...
...stops to rub his shoulder. A racial egalitarian in his own country and the veteran of African wars, he was shot earlier this year in an incident of racial violence while camping near Albuquerque. He shrugs. "I once said I'd shoot every bloody cow and rancher I came across. I thought unless we got rid of them, the whole world would become desert. But that kind of solution was wrong and counterproductive. Simplicity is the only thing I defend. I'd like to live with just a tin plate, a knife and a rifle in the African bush . . . knowing...