Word: rub
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sign over her house to him, but since Miss Beryl's role is to be the Smartest Person in Town, she won't. the novel's hero, Sully, a 60-year-old handyman with a bad knee, will enact Good Guy Without a Grain of Sense. Sully's sidekick Rub plays Loyal Shortie with the Brain of a Beagle. The lawyer Wirf, representing Sully in a workmen's comp case, will remain Drunk & Useless...
...didn't come here to learn how the manage. I came here to win. I know I sound confident, and I am. And I want that to rub off on our players."--Kevin Kennedy, Texas Rangers manager, whose team opened the season 6-2 despite having several players on the disabled list...
Harvard students will get a chance to rub elbows with Nobel laureates and the U.S. Surgeon General-elect on Saturday at the first even student caucus of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS...
...average happy noun ('problem'), and disfiguring it with a meaningless suffix. Take a few more such words; apply prefixes at will; stir boldly for a decade; before long, an entire generation will have on its tongues an assortment of unaesthetic and utterly meaningless words. And there, comrades, lies the rub. Their complete uselessness means everyone will use them--simply for want of a more precise descriptive term. You'll thematize your timetable, your phone directory will be positively intertextual, and, my lord, is that a bird I see or have I got decentered subjectivity...
This is not a massage parlor. This is a university. If you want to feel good at the end of a class, go get a rub down. If you want to think, you have to sweat and squirm and be made very uncomfortable in class...